Piedmont Eastside inpatient rehabilitation center ranks in top 10% of facilities in the US

Snellville, Ga. (April 16, 2026) – Piedmont Eastside Medical Center’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Center is excited to announce that it is in the top 10% of inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) nationwide that qualified to be ranked in the IRF database of Netsmart Technologies, Inc. (Netsmart) for cases discharged between October 2024 and September 2025. This is the ninth consecutive year that Piedmont Eastside has earned the recognition.

“We are delighted to receive this recognition for the ninth straight year,” said Piedmont Eastside CEO Larry Ebert. “Our inpatient rehabilitation team is outstanding, and this honor reflects the team’s dedication to helping our patients regain independence and return to the activities they enjoy.”

The rankings were determined using Netsmart’s program evaluation model, a case-mix- and severity-adjusted tool that provides facilities with a composite performance score and percentile ranking based on over 80% of all IRFs in the country.

Netsmart’s evaluation model Version 3 Report Card uses the efficiency and effectiveness indicators in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ reporting tool for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Quality Reporting Program (IRF QRP). The goal of the latest Report Card is to recognize high-performing facilities for delivering effective, efficient, timely, and patient-centered care.

“With their commitment to providing exceptional and effective patient care, it is with great pleasure that we present Piedmont Eastside with this award,” said Stephanie Stockton, manager of the Analytical Services Group at Netsmart. “We are proud to work alongside them and other top performers to learn from their successful strategies and to help elevate standards of care across the industry.”

This is the 18th year that these awards have been issued to inpatient rehabilitation facilities. The original Report Card was developed by Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSmr) as part of a proactive solution to the Institute of Medicine’s 2006 recommendation to Congress that every Medicare provider be reimbursed on a pay-for-performance basis.

The Version 3 Report Card builds upon the success of previous versions, measuring IRF performance by using a mix of Medicare IRF QRP quality measures and effectiveness indicators developed by UDSmr. The data used for this report were drawn from 12 months of records from both Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The results were weighted and combined into a single composite score, and each facility was assigned a percentile rank from 0 to 100 relative to the other qualifying IRF subscribers in the UDS PRO® database.