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 C for our short-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a rock bottom grade in this area also. It received a lowly F for this category, which is definitely very concerning. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 81.44796 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.