Greenwood Transitional Rehabilitation Unit

Greenwood Transitional Rehabilitation Unit is one of four nursing homes located in Greenwood, South Carolina. Featuring an overall score of A+, this nursing home is undoubtedly a world class facility. You really can not do any better than this nursing home. This also ended up being a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong grades in all four of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 72.6 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. 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.

In the next category we assessed, this facility received elite marks in the category of long-term care. For this reason, it received one of our best scores in that category with a grade of of A+. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. It doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the final category, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. We awarded it an A in that area. This rounded out a straight A report card. There are numerous criteria included in this area. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place provided 6.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is among the higher figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by these statistics. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the country in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these data points as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.