Greenbriar Nursing Center The

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections rating. This was the result of the nursing home receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its second best category. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most critical for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a score this poor in this category, we weren't shocked to discover that this facility was below average in two of the key staffing figures we assess. It supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.4 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 39.53488 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Turning to our final area, this facility didn't perform very well in this category either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is about as terrible as it gets. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This particular place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.