Greene County Medical Center

Greene County Medical Center is one of just two available facilities located in Jefferson, Iowa. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B+. A score in this range requires strong scores in most areas. Based on our assessment, this place ought to meet the needs of most people. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This place boasts a really impressive 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility was given strong scores in the area of short-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our best scores in that area with a score of A-. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this place's favorable score in this category is it offers more care from registered nurses to its patients than the average facility. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that category, which is among our best scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The last category we graded was long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. While this turned out to be its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. This nursing home's vaccination statistics were a bit weaker than a few of its other data points in this category, such as its nursing hours. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.54248 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement in this area in the future. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.39 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.