Greene County Medical Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care grade. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Building on its impressive resume, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an B+ for that category. The nursing rating consists of a handful of components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility earned a very good government inspection report this year as well. For this reason, it earned one of our better grades in that area with a B. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of B. This facility ended up being very solid in each category we looked at. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.09524 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.