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Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center

  • Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
Oct 18: ANov 18: ADec 18: AJan 19: AFeb 19: AMay 19: A-Jun 19: A-Jul 19: A-Aug 19: A-Sep 19: A-Jan 20: A-Mar 20: A-Apr 20: AMay 20: AJun 20: AJul 20: AAug 20: ASep 20: A-Oct 20: AJan 21: AFeb 21: AMar 21: A+Apr 21: AMay 21: AJun 21: AJul 21: AAug 21: ASep 21: AOct 21: ANov 21: AJan 22: A-Feb 22: A-Mar 22: A-Apr 22: AMay 22: AJun 22: A
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Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center's website

595 Vaden Drive,
Gretna VA 24557

(434) 656-1206

88.55% estimated occupancy 1

Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Gretna, Virginia. After receiving an A overall grade, this facility has the distinction of being one of the top 50 nursing homes in Virginia. Based on all of the relevant data, you can't go wrong with this place. Finally, this proved to be a very consistent facility with consistent ratings in all of our categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

On top of performing well overall, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A+. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its high-end assessment, this nursing home also was given an excellent short-term care score, with a score of A. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing score is based on quite a few datapoints, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents even once per day.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

In the final category we scored, this nursing home was given a very strong grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.27586 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Jul 22

Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 8.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.62% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term care patients who experienced a fall which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 2.59% of Patients had UTIs

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients that experienced a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.53% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 20.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of long-term stay patients that are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are generally given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.59% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression. Higher levels of depression could be an indicator a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 91.36% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 16.53% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 23.38% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.23 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 23.38 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.33 Percentage of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Gretna Health and Rehabilitation Center, 75.1% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita Chatham Dialysis11.18 miles away13912 Us Hwy 29 Chatham Virginia 24531Dialysis Stations: 17 (434) 432-1790
  • Uva Altavista Dialysis12.08 miles away701 5th Street Ste 102 Altavista Virginia 24517CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (434) 309-1128
  • Fmc - Blairs Dialysis14.19 miles away9325 Us Highway 29 Blairs Virginia 24527CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (434) 791-4546

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=495202