Grandview Healthcare Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the category of long-term care, we gave this facility a score of A- in that category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.10744 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next best category came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

Turning to our final category, we gave this facility a D for our nursing category. This is the facility's worst category rating. Naturally, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. Our nursing score considers several subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating substantially.