Greenbriar Nursing Center The

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other strengths is its dominant long-term care grade. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.72727 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next best area is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last category we looked at was nursing. We awarded this facility a grade of D for our nursing category, making this its worst grade. We analyzed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Although this facility did not excel in nursing hours, it actually surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home was better than average in this datapoint, which was one redeeming quality we found in this area.