Green Acres Lodge

Part of the reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received a very favorable nursing rating. Its nursing grade ended up being its best category. In this area, we gave this nursing home a B+. The nursing score weighs quite a few datapoints, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received strong long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in this area, with a grade of B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest grade. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.68848 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this nursing home's overall score quite a bit. For facilities with poor inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's poor track record spanned several years.