Greensburg Care Center

This nursing home's overall score was bolstered by the fact that it has received favorable inspections in recent years. We awarded it a strong score in that area, with a B. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score is based on many components, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next most favorable category we awarded this facility in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.17742 percent of its patients, which is higher than the average nursing home. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a B- for short-term care, which we consider to be a decent rating. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.