Greenbrier Health Center

Greenbrier Health Center is a large nursing home in Cleveland, Ohio. This turns out to be a very respectable facility, with an overall grade of B. If you take a look at the other options in Cleveland, we suspect you will find this facility to be a better option than most of the facilities in the city. Fortunately, this nursing home didn't have any weak links in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this area. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 63.547756 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Although this nursing home ranked poorly in terms of the quantity of nursing care provided, it surprisingly performed admirably in a few of our quality measures. In fact, it was above average in two of the major subcategories we assess, with positive reviews for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home was given a B- for short-term care, which is generally an acceptable rating. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. This facility was satisfactory in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered a reasonable level of care from both physical therapists and registered nurses. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this metric with 51.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.