Greenbriar Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
210 21st Ave W, Bradenton FL 34205 · (941) 747-3786 · 91.51% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Greenbriar Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is located in Bradenton, Florida. The city has several options. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the better facilities we looked at. A score in this range requires very strong marks across the board. This is one of the top five nursing homes in Bradenton. As you will see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 79 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Very few places fared this well in this area. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is frequently a solid assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home offered more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 70.7 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This particular nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the nation.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the last category, this facility was given a high-end long-term care grade. While this isn't quite as dominant as some of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our more favorable scores we offer. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of offering very impressive levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 1.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Greenbriar Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better