Nursing homes across Cherokee County, Georgia, graded on the federal inspection
record, nurse staffing and staff turnover. County rank is shown on each home's profile.
Cherokee Center for Nursing and Healing runs a 100-bed for-profit home in Canton, and the staffing numbers are where the trouble starts. At 2.95 nurse hours per resident day, it sits roughly a quarter below the national average of 3.86, and weekends drop another 12% below its own weekday coverage. That shortfall shows up in a 1-out-of-5 staffing rating, a 52.6% annual turnover rate, and 31 deficiencies on the current record, six of them serious enough to put residents in harm's way and two tied to abuse. A single fine of $185,650 and a place in CMS's Special Focus Facility program follow from that pattern, despite strong quality-measure scores.
Canton Center runs on county government ownership, and the numbers show where that leaves residents. Nurse staffing sits at 3.06 hours per resident day, roughly a fifth below the national average, and weekends drop another 12% below the home's own weekday levels, so the thinnest coverage lands when families tend to visit. Staff turnover is 59.3%, well above the 45.8% national figure, which means caregivers are cycling through faster than residents can build familiarity with them. The current inspection record shows 15 deficiencies, none tied to harm, jeopardy, or abuse, and the most recent survey was in August 2025. Quality measures score low, and staffing is the weakest piece of the federal picture here.
The numbers at Woodstock Center are hard to dress up. Nurse staffing sits at 3.04 hours per resident per day against a national average of 3.86, and weekends run thinner still, about 8% below the home's own weekday level. Staff turnover is 63.9%, well above the 45.8% national figure, which means the people caring for residents are, more often than not, fairly new to the building.
Its current inspection record carries 20 deficiencies, five of them serious enough to involve harm or jeopardy, and five tied to abuse. CMS gave it 2 out of 5 stars on health inspections and 1 out of 5 on both quality measures and staffing. The most recent inspection was August 2025, so that record is current, not stale.