Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation is a senior living facility in Colchester, Vermont, which has a population of 17,107 people. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is among the top scores we offer. A grade of this caliber requires top-notch scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the nation. The best part of this facility's impressive report card is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
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Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home was awarded a superb grade of A- in our long-term care area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 89.3401 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home 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 an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
We also would like to note the fact that this facility was given an impressive score of A- in our short-term care area. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we rated was nursing, where this facility received a C. This is this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. There are many factors included in this grade. Most of these factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 7.19% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 5.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are often associated with poor nursing care. More supervision reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 2.96% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric can be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 16.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 16.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 12.68% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 93.14% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 20.72% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of deterioration of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 22.62% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility. Some would argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 1.21 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 22.62 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 14.59 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Green Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation, 82.97% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- University of Vermont Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.05 miles away111 Colchester Ave Burlington Vermont 05401Voluntary non-profit - Other(802) 847-0000
Nearby Dialysis
- University of Vermont Medical Center Inc3.05 miles away111 Colchester Avenue Dialysis Unit-Shep 4 Burlington Vermont 05401Dialysis Stations: 10 (802) 847-5269
- University of Vermont Medical Center Dialysis South Burlington4.73 miles away35 Joy Drive South Burlington Vermont 05403CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (802) 847-3030