Greenville Nursing & Rehab

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A- for this category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B+. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents even once per day.

The third area we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home received a favorable short-term care grade, with a grade of B in the area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 4.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Our final category is long-term care, where we gave this nursing home a C in that category. With our long-term care assessment, we analyze the sheer quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a few quality statistics. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very solid statistic. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.