Bolingreen Health and Rehabilitation

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than its overall grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of components, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents even once per day.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility was given just a D in that category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.9 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we scored was long-term care, was this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 84.716156 percent of its residents. This is several points lower than average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.