Edgewood Manor of Greenfield

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Sadly, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which is unexpected based on its inspection rating. This category of deficiency indicates inspectors found a widespread deficiency putting resident safety or health in immediate danger. Even a single deficiency in this category is concerning. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

We also gave this nursing home a respectable score in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is considered to be a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing score weighs several subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

This nursing home's worst area is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. It received a lowly F in this area. In spite of multiple solid scores in other categories, this score is still concerning so we wanted to make a note of it. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.72611 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.