Greenwood Healthcare Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's long-term care rating turns out to be one of its best grades. The facility received a C in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 80.096306 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below the national average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third category we analyzed was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a decent grade of C. Our short-term care grade is generally used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's least impressive category was nursing, which is the last area we looked at. Sadly, it received an F in this category. Despite multiple acceptable grades in other categories, this score is still concerning so we felt obligated to point it out. There are several subcategories included in this grade. Many of the subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.