Greenwood Meadows

Greenwood Meadows is a large government-owned nursing home in Greenwood, Indiana. With an overall grade of B+, this proved to be ranked among the three highest graded facilities in the city. You could definitely do much worse than this facility. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other achievements is its top-shelf long-term care score. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a score of A. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 1.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the pack in this area.

The third area we graded was short-term care. This facility received a very positive short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the area. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Indiana in this area with 64.6 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to the last category, we gave this facility a grade of D for our nursing category. This was the nursing home's weakest category rating. Nevertheless, you should not dwell on a single weak category. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Although this nursing home's nursing hours are below average, it surprised us in some of the qualitative data points in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its residents are sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than the national average.