Gracewood Health & Rehab

While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a B- for inspections. This grade is more respectable than the facility's overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. In calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. 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 facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We gave it a B- in that category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 89.95633 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.