Grandview Healthcare Center

On top of receiving a strong overall rating, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it an A for this area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it received an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this proved to be its second best category grade. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.75 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility's worst area is nursing, which is the final area we assessed. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area. Even with some excellent grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we would like to to point it out. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.