Grayson Nursing and Rehabilitation

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's above average category scores came in the category of long-term care. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facilities third best area was short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this area. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we assessed is nursing. In that area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This actually was this nursing home's weakest category. When computing our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.