Greensburg Care Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving residents more often.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This place was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

The third category we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B- in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 91.37255 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our last category is short-term care, in which we gave this facility a C in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.