Greenhill Villas of Mount Pleasant

We couldn't find anything positive to say about this place. It received a lowly D in the category of short-term care. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Considering its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Sadly, this nursing home's next most respectable score is long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat poorly. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Among this nursing home's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection score. Typically, this indicates we found some red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. With facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Turning to our last area, this nursing home really did not fare very well in this area either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.