Greene Point Health and Rehabilitation

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.74214 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we looked at is short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Of course, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. In this facility's case, we found that it offers fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.