Green Acres Health Care

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It does not look like we have deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having complete information regarding deficiencies, it is challenging to fully assess it in this area.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an C for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area.

This facility was given its next most favorable category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a decent grade. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The last category we graded is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is a fair grade in this category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 69.84127 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly below average. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.