Green Country Care Center

This facility fared well in the area of long-term care, with an impressive grade of A+ in this category. This really helped its overall score quite a bit. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.56631 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an B+ for our inspections category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

The final area we scored was short-term care, proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. This was one of just a few weak links of an otherwise strong report card. Short-term care scores are vital for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It looks like this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.