Bostick Nursing Center

Location & what’s nearby

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Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Short-stay rehab — if you are coming here from a hospital

Arriving from a hospital right now? Read the discharge guide → — your appeal rights, how to slow a rushed discharge, and what to ask about the numbers below.

Therapy staffing: not reported. This home filed no therapist hours at all in its payroll data for this quarter. That is a gap in what it reported, and we do not read it as an absence of therapy — the homes that file nothing here include ones that discharged hundreds of Medicare rehab patients in the very same period, who plainly received therapy from someone. Because we cannot tell a home that under-reports from one that genuinely provides little, this home is left out of the comparison above rather than scored at zero. Ask it directly how many therapist hours a rehab resident gets, and on which days.

This section is about rehab stays, not living here. Most of this page — the stars, the quality measures, the inspection record — describes the home the way a permanent resident experiences it. These figures describe the short Medicare stay after a hospital discharge: a hip, a stroke, a bad infection, six weeks and home. They are different residents, different staff, often a different wing. Therapy hours are per resident in the building, not per rehab patient — the count includes every long-stay resident, and they mostly get no therapy at all. So a home with a small rehab wing inside a large nursing population reads low here even if its rehab patients get plenty of therapy, and a mostly-rehab home reads high. Use it to compare homes doing similar work, ask what a rehab resident actually gets in a day, and remember that CMS does not publish therapy minutes per patient — nobody does.

Staffing

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 280 beds and averages 243.0 residents a day — about 87% occupied, or roughly 37 beds typically open. It runs fairly full. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 0.46 hrs/resident/day is below the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 0.17 is below the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 0.00 is below the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

Weekend coverage: total nurse staffing is 0.46 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 0.46 on weekdays — about the same on weekends as weekdays. RN hours go from 0.18 to 0.15 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

Deficiencies are fewer than at the previous inspection — improving. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

This trend is not current. The most recent of these two inspections was over 2 years ago; the arrow describes what inspectors found then, not what the home is like now.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

18 citations, most serious first. The 10 most serious are shown; the remaining 8 are one tap away and print in full.

• Potential for harm · F2025-11-18 · tag F0812 — failed to store, cook, and serve food safely — widespread
  Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observations, staff interviews, and review of the facility policies titled Equipment and Warewashing, the facility failed to ensure that dishware was not stored wet. In addition, the facility failed to ensure sanitary conditions in the kitchen. These deficient practices had the potential to place the 213 residents receiving nutrition and hydration from the kitchen at risk of a foodborne illness. Findings include: Review of the facility's policy titled Equipment, revised 9/2017, revealed the Policy Statement section included, All foodservice equipment will be clean, sanitary, and in proper working order.Review of the facility's policy titled Warewashing, revised 12/2024, revealed the Procedures section included, . 4. All dishware will be air dried and properly stored.During a tour of the kitchen on 9/22/2025 at 9:50 am with the Certified Dietary Manager (CDM), observation revealed that washed plates stacked in the plate storage had water between them. Continued observation revealed that a fan mounted on the wall, and directed toward the clean section of the kitchen, had a…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · F2025-11-18 · tag F0925 — failed to control pests — widespread
  Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observations, staff interviews, and review of the facility's pest control contract and service records, the facility failed to maintain effective pest control in the kitchen. This facility practice had the potential to place the 213 residents who received nutrition and hydration from the kitchen. Findings include:Observation on 9/22/2025 at 10:07 am revealed flies in the kitchen, with one fly landing on a four-ounce (oz) serving bowl with pudding. Observation on 9/22/2025 at 10:16 am revealed flies in the kitchen, hovering around the steam table, and two landing on the pole that supports the table.Observation on 9/23/2025 at 12:30 pm, during lunch meal pass, revealed flies hovering around the steam table and prepared food, with one fly landing on a four-oz serving bowl of assorted fruits. In an interview on 9/22/2025 at 10:10 am, the Certified Dietary Manager confirmed the presence of the flies in the kitchen area. In an interview on 9/24/2025 at 11:03 am, the Maintenance Director stated that the prolonged summer resulted in the continued presence of flies, and he had not…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Environmental Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2024-05-30 · tag F0692 — failed to prevent malnutrition and dehydration — isolated
  Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, staff interviews, record review, and review of the facility policy titled Weight Monitoring Policy and Procedures, the facility failed to identify and implement interventions in a timely manner to aid in the prevention of potential weight loss for one of two sampled residents (R) (R39) reviewed for weight loss out of a total sample of 36 residents. R39 had a recorded severe weight loss of 5.23 percent in one month. Findings include: Review of the facility's undated policy titled Weight Monitoring Policy and Procedures revealed, . Resident with a SWL [Significant Weight Loss] will be weighed and reviewed weekly for a minimum of 4 (sic) weeks until weight is stable or increasing. Review of R39's admission Record, located under the Profile tab of the electronic medical record (EMR), revealed R39 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses that included major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, and unspecified protein-calorie malnutrition. Review of R39's Physician Orders, dated…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2023-11-15 · tag F0602 — failed to protect residents from theft of their belongings — isolated
  Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on staff and resident interviews, record review, and a review of the facility policy titled, Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation, or Misappropriation- Reporting and Investigating, the facility failed to protect the resident's right to be free from misappropriation of funds/property for one of four residents (R) (R 1) by a staff member. Findings: A review of the facility policy titled Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation, or Misappropriation- Reporting and Investigating revised date September 2022 under Policy Statement revealed: All reports of resident abuse (including injuries of unknown origin), neglect, exploitation, or theft/misappropriation of resident property are reported to local, state, and federal agencies (as required by current regulations) and thoroughly investigated by facility management. Findings od all investigations are documented and reported. Under Corrective Action: 2. If the investigation reveals allegations of abuse are found, the employee(s) is terminated. Record review revealed R#1 was admitted to the facility with multiple diagnoses of, but not limited to hemiplegia…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-11-03 · tag F0550 — failed to protect resident dignity and rights — isolated
  Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights.
  What the surveyor found here — the official record, unedited, may be distressing

  Based on the observation, interviews, and review of facility documents, the facility failed to ensure residents were not served meals on disposable dishware. The facility census was 205. Findings include: During an interview on 11/2/22 at 9:45 a.m. with the Dietary Manager revealed the kitchen was using the all-disposable trays, Styrofoam boxes, and prepackaged cutlery. During observation and interviews in the dining room on the three hundred hall on 11/3/22 at 12:47 p.m., several residents voiced concerns about receiving their meals on paper goods. Review of facility documentation revealed they had been using paper goods since 3/17/20.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2022-11-03 · tag F0656 — failed to write and follow a full care plan — isolated
  Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, record review and staff interview, and review of the facility policy titled Care Plans, Comprehensive Person-Centered the facility failed to develop and implement a care plan for the use of an indwelling urinary catheter for one resident (R) (R#156) and for oxygen therapy for one resident, R#146. The sample size was 46. Findings include: Review of the facility policy titled Care Plans, Comprehensive Person-Centered dated revised December 2016 revealed: a comprehensive, person-centered care plan that includes measurable objectives and timetables to meet the resident's physical, psychosocial and functional needs is developed and implemented for each resident. 1. Review of R#156's diagnoses included but not limited to benign prostatic hyperplasia with lower urinary tract symptoms. Review of R#156's quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) dated [DATE] revealed Section C-Cognition: Brief Interview of Mental Status (BIMS) score of 13 indicating minimum cognitive deficit. Section G-Functional Status:…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Dcited before2022-11-03 · tag F0689 — failed to keep residents free of avoidable accidents; supervise adequately — isolated
  Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, resident and staff interviews, record review and review of the facility policy titled Safety and Supervision of Residents, the facility failed to ensure the environment was free from potential accident hazards by not ensuring that a heating element, specifically a clothes iron, was kept in a secured location and not in a resident (R) room (R#149). The sample size was 46. Findings include: Review of the facility policy titled Safety and Supervision of Residents revealed the policy statement is to make the environment as free from accident hazards as possible. Record review revealed that R#149 had diagnoses that included schizophrenia, primary open-angle glaucoma bilateral, combined forms of age-related cataract bilateral, and cystoid macular degeneration left eye. Review of the Quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) dated [DATE] revealed that R#149 had a Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) score of 15 (indicating cognitively intact). Section G - Functional Status indicated resident was…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-11-03 · tag F0690 — failed to manage incontinence, catheters, and urinary infections — isolated
  Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observation, record review and staff interview, and review of the facility policy titled Catheter Care, Urinary the facility failed to obtain a Physician's Order for the use of an indwelling urinary catheter for one resident (R) (R#156) of 16 residents with an indwelling urinary catheter. Findings include: Review of the facility policy titled Catheter Care, Urinary dated revised 2014 revealed the purpose of this procedure is to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Review of R#156's diagnoses included but not limited to benign prostatic hyperplasia with lower urinary tract symptoms. Review of R#156's quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) dated [DATE] revealed Section C-Cognition: Brief Interview of Mental Status (BIMS) score of 13 indicating minimum cognitive deficit; Section G-Functional Status: extensive assistance with most activities of daily living (ADL's); Section H-Bowel and Bladder: has a catheter. Review of R#156's Physician's Orders revealed no order for the use of an indwelling…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-11-03 · tag F0758 — failed to limit and justify psychotropic drugs — isolated
  Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observations, record review, staff interview, and review of the policy titled, PRN Psychotropic Notification and PRN Anti-Psychotic Notifications the facility failed to ensure that psychotropic medications including an antipsychotic and an antianxiety medication were not ordered as needed (PRN) for more than 14 days unless clinically indicated for one of five residents (R) (R#88) reviewed for unnecessary medications. Findings include: Review of the documents titled PRN Psychotropic Notification not dated revealed PRN psychotropics (excluding antipsychotics): 14-day limitation on all PRN orders and PRN Anti-Psychotic Notification not dated revealed 14-day limitation on all PRN orders. Order may not be extended beyond 14 days. Review of R#88's diagnoses included but not limited to Huntington's disease, major depression disorder, anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Review of R#88's quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) dated [DATE] revealed Section C-Cognition: Brief Interview of Mental Status…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2022-11-03 · tag F0880 — failed to prevent and control infections — isolated
  Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observation and staff interviews, the facility failed to wash/sanitize hands and change gloves during wound treatment for one resident (R) (#16) reviewed for pressure ulcers. The sample size was 46 residents. Findings include: During an observation on 11/2/22 at 9:30 a.m., revealed wound care was not performed in accordance with accepted standards of treatment. Wound nurse removed gloves but did not decontaminate hands between glove change. Nurse washed her hands with soap and water prior to wound care. Nurse washed her scissors with soap and water at R#16 sink. With ungloved hands, wound nurse cut the dressing from R#16 right heel and placed the contaminated scissors on R#16 bed next to his right foot. Nurse removed the soiled dressing and placed it in a clear trash bag, and she placed the bag on R#16 bed. Nurse donned gloves, cleaned the area to right heel and applied a betadine-soaked gauze to his right heel. Nurse removed gloves and donned gloves. Nurse did not sanitize hands between glove change. Nurse wrapped right leg with a Kerlix wrap, dated the dressing, and…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Infection Control Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction

“Cited before” means this same F-tag appears on at least one other survey date in the record we hold — counting complaint investigations as well as standard surveys, with no time limit. It is our own read of the data, not CMS’s: CMS uses repeat deficiency as a formal term tied to consecutive standard surveys, and that is a narrower test than this one. A tag marked here may or may not meet it.

Fines & penalties

No federal fines in the current CMS record.

Who owns this facility

CMS files one row per role, so the 9 rows in the source record cover these 8 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted.

3 organizational owners listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

Follow the money — this home’s finances

Where a nursing home’s revenue comes from and where it goes — including money paid to companies under the same ownership. Most consumer sites never show this; we reproduce it straight from the Medicare cost report.

This home reported $2.4M paid to related parties — landlords or management companies under common ownership — equal to about 14% of its total expenses. Money routed to affiliated companies can leave a home’s own books looking lean while owners still profit; it is the mechanism regulators watch most closely in private-equity and REIT deals.

Source: CMS Healthcare Provider Cost Reporting Information System (HCRIS), Medicare cost report Form CMS-2540 · fiscal year 2023. Facilities self-file these reports; figures are unaudited and a year or two behind. A home with no Medicare cost report on file shows no figures here.

Cost & finances

Straight from this home’s Medicare cost report (CMS, FY2023). These are its operating economics — what it costs to run per resident-day and what it collects on average across Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay — not a private-pay quote. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on payer and room type, so ask the facility directly; a higher operating cost can reflect richer staffing or a sicker population. The cost-of-care planner shows regional benchmarks by care type.

What families pay in GA