Green Acres Lodge

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing category is based on several subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.69136 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also awarded this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which is one of our higher scores. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. This grade was detrimental to this nursing home's overall grade. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this facility received significant government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This usually means that government inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad health inspections.