Greenspring Village

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. The nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This first-rate nursing home also performed well in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes performed better in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is more often than not a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home has earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not 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 rare in this industry.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a very strong profile. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.