Granby House

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this category with an A. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. With our long-term care score, we analyze the amount of services offered by a facility, along with a series of quality statistics. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 98.89503 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's third best category ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is typically a reliable measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next area we rated was nursing. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared with most other nursing homes. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.