Greenwood Transitional Rehabilitation Unit

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received an A+ inspection score. This score is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities received a better grade in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We weren't able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we graded is nursing, where this facility received an A. This wrapped up an elite report card. Very few nursing homes received an A- or better in each of our categories. There are a host of factors within this area. Many of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident more frequently.