What is the Best Nursing Home in Atlanta?
Finding the best nursing home in Atlanta is a personal, family decision. However, CMS and Georgia state inspectors can help families highlight the highest rated, best performing skilled nursing facilities in the Atlanta metro area.
As of the time of this post, there are five nursing facilities located in and around Atlanta, Georgia that have been rated as 5-star facilities by Medicare. A 5-star rating is considered to be “Much Above Average” by Medicare, with a 1-star rating seen as “Much Below Average.” These ratings are based on three factors:
- how well a nursing home does on health inspections,
- whether a facility is well staffed or understaffed, and
- how well a nursing home provides adequate and quality care to residents.
We also factor in the frequency in which our law firm has sued the facility for nursing home negligence, abuse, or resident neglect.
Our Atlanta nursing home abuse attorneys detail the best nursing homes in the Atlanta metro region. The following 5-star rated nursing homes can all be found within 20 miles of Atlanta, Georgia.
Lenbrook – Atlanta, GA
Lenbrook is located at 3747 Peachtree Road N.E. in Atlanta, Georgia. Rather than being one building, Lenbrook is a sprawling campus with apartments for independent living residents, facilities for assisted living residents, and a nursing home for skilled nursing residents.
Lenbrook is considered a Continuing Care Life Plan Community and is the only Life Plan Community in Atlanta to be CARF accredited. CARF, or the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, grants accreditation to facilities that meet over 1,100 nationally recognized standards. Lenbrook first owned their CARF accreditation in 1992 and has successfully kept it since.
Lenbrook, known also by the legal business name of Lenbrook Square Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit corporation. Lenbrook’s nursing home is a 60-bed facility that, at the time of this post, has been rated 5 out of 5 stars by Medicare. According to the staffing reports, Lenbrook residents receive 6 hours and 5 minutes of nurse staff hours per resident per day. For comparison, the average amount of nurse staff hours per resident per day in nursing homes across Georgia is 3 hours and 21 minutes.
As of the date of this post, our Atlanta nursing home abuse lawyers have not sued Lenbrook for any abuse or neglect claims.
Briarwood Health Center by Harborview – Tucker, GA
Briarwood Health Center by Harborview is located at 3888 Lavista Road in Tucker, Georgia. Briarwood Health Center by Harborview is a for-profit facility run by Harborview Health Systems. It is also known by the legal business name of Briarwood Operating Company, LLC. The nursing home offers short-term rehabilitation, as well as long-term skilled nursing and memory care.
Harborview Health Systems proudly states on their website that Briarwood Health Center is an agency-free nursing home. This means that the nursing staff working in the facility work directly for Briarwood Health Center, not an outside nursing agency.
As of this post, Briarwood Health Center by Harborview has been rated 5 out of 5 stars by Medicare. In the facility’s most recent health inspection in May 2021, they received zero health citations. The average amount of health citations that nursing facilities in Georgia receive annually is 4, and our lawyers have not sued Briarwood Health Center.
Life Care Center of Gwinnett – Lawrenceville, GA
Life Care Center of Gwinnett is a 163-bed nursing home located at 3850 Safehaven Drive in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The facility is located within 10 miles of Eastside Medical Center and Gwinnett Medical Center.
Life Care Center of Gwinnett accepts long-term care residents as well as short-term care residents. Life Care Center of Gwinnett is a for-profit facility run under the legal business name of Life Care Centers of America, Inc.
As of the time of this post, the nursing home has been rated 5 out of 5 stars on Medicare’s Care Compare page. Their long-term stay quality care measures, as well as their short-term stay quality care measures were both rated as “Much Above Average” by Medicare. The percentage of long-term residents with pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, was noted to be 5.4%, which is considerably lower than the average percentage of long-term residents with bedsores across Georgia: 10.4%. Additionally, the percentage of residents who experienced one or more fall with major injury at the facility was 0.8%; the national average of residents experiencing severe falls with injury in a nursing home is 3.4%.
Senior Justice Law Firm has filed lawsuits against Life Care Center nursing homes in the past, but not against this specific 5 star Lawrenceville facility.
PruittHealth – Austell – Austell, GA
PruittHealth – Austell is located at 1700 Mulkey Road in Austell, Georgia. This 124-bed nursing home can be found next to WellStar Cobb Hospital.
PruittHealth – Austell is a for-profit facility known by the legal business name of PruittHealth – Austell, LLC. PruittHealth – Austell is a recipient of the AHCA/NCAL Silver Award – Achievement in Quality and is Joint Commission accredited.
At the time of this post, PruittHealth – Austell has been given a 5-star rating by Medicare. During the facility’s most recent health inspection in May 2022, they received zero health citations. Furthermore, over the past three years, the facility has received zero complaints that have resulted in citations.
Senior Justice Law Firm has filed lawsuits against PruittHealth alleging negligence, but there are no pending claims against this Austell nursing home.
Delmar Gardens of Smyrna – Smyrna, GA
Delmar Gardens of Smyrna is a 120-bed facility located at 404 King Springs Village Parkway in Smyrna, Georgia. The facility offers independent living, assisted living, and rehabilitation services.
The for-profit facility is known by the legal business name of Delmar Gardens of Smyrna, LLC. As of this post, Medicare has rated Delmar Gardens of Smyrna 5 out of 5 stars for the facility’s performance on health inspections, staffing reports, and quality care measures.
According to Medicare, the percentage of Delmar Gardens of Smyrna’s long-term care residents whose ability to move independently worsened is 7.3%. The average percentage of long-term care residents whose ability to move independently worsened across nursing homes in Georgia is 19.5%, which is 12.2% higher than that of Delmar Gardens’. Also, the facility has received zero complaints which resulted in a health and/or safety citation in the past three years.
The Takeaway
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as the perfect nursing home. The above are highly rated Atlanta nursing homes, but that does not mean that these homes are incapable of neglecting or harming residents.
Further, facilities change management and ownership frequently. What was a phenomenal facility last year can take a sharp turn after a change in management. Unfortunately, it can take state regulators years to ‘catch up’ to the bad care, meaning a terrible facility can masquerade as a 5 star facility due to the good work of a prior owner.
Your best bet is to tour highly regarded facilities and see what feels right to you. Visit often, and at unexpected times. Be on the lookout for ‘red flag injuries’ which are correlated with nursing home abuse, like bedsores, falls, and weight loss.
If your loved one was hurt or wrongfully passed away inside a Georgia nursing home, contact our narrowly focused Atlanta nursing home abuse attorneys today for a free case consultation: 470-598-1515
