Grandview Healthcare Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home was awarded its second most favorable category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is an acceptable grade. Our long-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.63946 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facilities third best category was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The final category we graded is nursing. We gave this facility a grade of D in the area of nursing, making this its worst category. Our nursing rating weighs many data points. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home averaged a meager 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below the national average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing rating substantially.