Greenbriar Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's next best score was short-term care, but even there it earned just a D in that area. This turns out to be a well below average grade. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another issue is the F this facility received in the area of long-term care. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.31138 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The last area we analyzed was nursing. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. There are numerous factors included in this category. Most of the factors relate to staffing levels. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.