Ghs Greenville Memorial Subacute Unit

Ghs Greenville Memorial Subacute Unit is a very-small hospital-based facility in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. With an overall rating of A+, this nursing home is one of the most impressive nursing homes we looked at. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the top 500 best facilities in the country. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category ratings, which appear to be equally strong as its overall score.

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A+. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is frequently a reliable assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it provided approximately 50% more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 74.6 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. This was one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an A+ for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The fourth area we scored was nursing, where this facility received a grade of A. This topped off a very strong profile. Only a select few facilities earned an A- or higher in every category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 7.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by these figures. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in South Carolina in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.