Greenwood Meadows

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a score of B+. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.234695 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our last area, we gave this nursing home a A+ for our nursing score. This topped off a very impressive profile. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.