Greene Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Greene Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is one of only two available facilities located in Catskill, New York. Sporting an overall rating of D, this is a well below average nursing home. This facility seems to have very little going for it. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While we were not high on this facility's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Despite this deficiency, this nursing home still received a relatively favorable report.

This nursing home was awarded its next best category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this area, which is a respectable score. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more critical for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place was respectable in this area with 47 percent of its patients returning home.

We awarded this facility just a D for our long-term care rating. This is well below average in this category. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 99.13793 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The last area we rated is nursing, in which this facility received an abysmal grade in this area also. We gave it an F for this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. With just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.