Green Ridge Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid places that have a long list of deficiencies. 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. Despite this deficiency, this place still had a relatively positive report.

Sadly, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which turns out to be one of its more favorable category scores. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 84.71338 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points less than the national average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing. We awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our best scores. When calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we rated was short-term care. This nursing home received a rock bottom grade of F in that category. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Based on its grade in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.