Grandview Health Care Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also performed well in the category of long-term care, with a superb grade of A in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.888885 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's second least favorable score is short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average grade. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's least impressive category is nursing, which is the final category we looked at. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category. Even with some decent grades in other categories, this grade is still concerning so we felt obligated to point it out. In determining our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. On top of its below average nursing hours, this facility also received poor marks in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this place's patients suffered falls leading to major injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this nursing home receiving a terrible nursing rating.