The spokesperson added that the Georgia Department of Health found the facility deficiency-free during its last inspection in May.
Reasons for the comparatively low caseloads (utilization rate) at Demba and Kabare Hospitals can be hypothesized by assessing these hospitals' infrastructure and resource base in general patients are likely to bypass facilities within their health district due to health facility deficiencies.
The remaining 6 criteria include infection injury, accidental injury such as an accident during ambulance transportation, defective equipment, damage to healthcare facilities, deficiencies in the delivery of a pharmaceutical (except for unexpected side effects of pharmaceuticals, for which a separate compensation scheme exists), and unreasonable injury.
When the Metrodome roof collapsed after a snowstorm in 2010, it drew attention to the facility's deficiencies.
A recent report prepared for the New York AARP showed disturbing trends in nursing homes and found that the number of facilities considered deficiency-free is now under 20percentt.
In Kansas, state officials have cited nearly half of the company's 29 facilities for deficiencies over the last year, including a death at one unit.
For general and pediatric surgery, 7 of 12 facilities had deficiencies.
Improved record keeping could facilitate routine monitoring, reporting, and clinical audits that might help facility staff identify deficiencies in care [ 21, 22].
Because Nursing Home Inspect lets you search (by state and city, by deficiency, by facility name, by keywords), it's particularly valuable for regulators or reporters seeking patterns and trends.
If not, the facilities will receive a "deficiency" and must file a "plan of correction" within 10 days; they then have 90 days to make those changes.
But the particulars often remained mysteriously vague: A reader could see how many deficiencies a facility was cited for, but wouldn't know what problems or shortcomings triggered them.
