All 3 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Elberton,
side by side on the things that separate them: how many nursing hours each resident gets, how much of the
staff leaves each year, and what inspectors found on their last visit.
Pruitthealth - Spring Valley runs a tight ship on inspections, a five-star health inspection rating and a recent survey, from August 2025, with ten deficiencies on record and none at the harm level. That matters. What drags on the picture is daily staffing: 3.28 nurse hours per resident day, roughly 15% under the national average of 3.86, and weekends come in about 11% lighter than weekdays. Turnover, though, is genuinely better than most, 33.3% against a national 45.8%, so the people who stay tend to stay. The one abuse-related deficiency is worth asking about directly. Sixty beds, individually owned, for profit.
Nancy Hart Operation runs on thinner nursing coverage than most homes its size, 3.02 nurse hours per resident each day against a national average of 3.86, with weekends dipping about 12 percent below its own weekday pace. That staffing pattern shows up alongside a 54.5 percent annual turnover rate, meaning more than half the nursing staff leaves within a year. The inspection record carries 28 deficiencies, three serious enough to cause harm and one tied to abuse, plus five fines totaling $30,309 and a July 2025 inspection. This is a for-profit LLC with 67 beds, and families should ask directly how the home covers weekend shifts and what it has changed since that abuse finding.
Heardmont Health And Rehabilitation is a for-profit LLC home in Elberton with 60 certified beds, and its record is one of the more serious in the federal data. Twenty-eight deficiencies are on file, seven of them at the harm or jeopardy level and three tied to abuse, which is why CMS has placed it in the Special Focus Facility program, a designation reserved for homes with a persistent pattern of poor care. Nurse staffing sits at 3.71 hours per resident day, roughly 4% under the national average, and weekends run about 20% thinner than weekdays. Annual turnover of 48.9% tops the national rate, and the single fine on record is $170,259. The most recent inspection was November 18, 2025.