Gracewood Health & Rehab

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a B- for our long-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's personal care instead of the skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.25862 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home did not perform very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a score in this range in this category, we were not shocked to discover this place was below average in the two key staffing figures we focus on. It supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.7 percent of its residents returning home.