Greenwood Center

To pair with a strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A for inspections. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing score weighs a handful of factors, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Rhode Island 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 employing a system of moving residents at least once a day.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B+. Our short-term care scores are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we rated is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 76.21951 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than the national average. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.