Greenbriar Nursing Center The

Although we did not rate this place favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it a B+ in this category, which was much better than its overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

In addition, we also wanted to point out that this facility was given favorable long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 53.333332 percent of its patients, which is a bit lower than we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility's received a rock-bottom short-term care score where it received an F. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Given its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.

The final category we graded was nursing, where this facility received a bottom of the barrel score in this area also. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Nursing scores are mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.