Greenewood Manor

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent health inspections recently. We gave them an A in this area. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a top-shelf score of A- in our long-term care category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.09524 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing score consists of many subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a resident even once per day.

The final category we scored turned out to be this facility's weakest area. However, even its lowest point would actually be a strength for most facilities. We gave it a strong grade of B in our short-term care category. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.