Situated at 900 Wylie Road in Marietta, The A.G. Rhodes operates a 130-bed nursing facility licensed since October 1992 under owner Loretta Barnes and administrator Jovonne Harvey. The privately-owned community, classified as a nursing home providing skilled nursing, surgical recovery, therapeutic rehabilitation, and short-and long-term care, offers residents access to horticultural therapy, music therapy, and a therapy pool.
Residents participate in an active council addressing facility policies and quality-of-life matters.
The community achieved 92% occupancy, well above Georgia’s 78.1% average and ranking in the top tier statewide. Average resident stay of 72 days reflects a primarily short-stay population: 38% Medicare admissions (28-day typical stay) and 62% private pay (3-to-4-month typical stay). Current resident breakdown includes 67.6% Medicaid, 23.8% Medicare, and 8.6% private pay. No federal penalties have been imposed in the past three years.
Staffing allocation totals 173 employees with minimal contractor dependency (1.1% contractor hours). Nursing care averages 4 hours 20 minutes daily per resident; 20% above state average and ranking #26 among 190 Georgia facilities. Staff composition includes 7 RNs, 42 LPNs, and 85 CNAs; a 1.65:1 staff-to-resident ratio exceeds state benchmarks by 16%.
Payroll expenditure of $8.2 million represents 43.2% of revenue, below the 51–61% threshold associated with optimal operations.
Regulatory compliance shows cumulative deficiency count of 69 since 2017, averaging 7.7 annually versus state average 2.3; a 235% differential. Across 46 inspections, the facility averages 1.5 deficiencies per inspection, 29% better than state mean.
Health inspections from 2019 forward identified 15 citations; severity includes 3 critical violations and 2 serious violations, both substantially above state averages. Primary deficiency themes: Quality of Life & Care (27%), Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation (27%), and Infection Control (20%).
A substantiated 2023 abuse allegation documented failure to protect a resident and report timely. The January 2025 inspection cited no deficiencies. Prior years identified fire safety, medication auditing, and hazardous materials storage issues; subsequent revisit surveys documented correction.
High-risk clinical events score of 8.5 is 18% better than state; functional decline of 16.2 is 7% better. Long-stay preventive care shows excellence: pneumococcal vaccination at 100% and influenza at 99%, both at or above state standards. Depressive symptoms (0.6%) and UTI rates (0.9%) rank substantially better than state. Falls with major injury (3.5%) and short-stay re-hospitalization (28.8%) both exceed state norms.
The facility demonstrates capable preventive health maintenance alongside documented historical compliance gaps that recent inspections show are being addressed.













