Green Lea Senior Living

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we awarded it a grade of A-. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility fared well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care provided.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was awarded a C for long-term care, which we consider to be an acceptable score. Long-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of nursing services. This means a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 73.19588 percent of its patients. This is multiple points below what we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.