Greenville Health Care Center

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

The next highest area we awarded this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Long-term care ratings are important for prospective residents in need of non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next highest category turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was given a C. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most critical for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the final category we assessed. Sadly, it received an F for this area. Despite several respectable grades in other areas, this score is still disappointing so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Nursing grades are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this statistic. This is concerning when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.