Greystone Health Care Center

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B- for inspections. This grade is better than the place's overall grade. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This nursing home's short-term care score ended up being one of its respectable features. The nursing home was given a grade of B- in this category. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's next best area is long-term care. We gave it a B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.74608 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the final area we assessed. For this area, we gave this nursing home a D. Nursing ratings are tied to nurse staffing levels. With just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below average. This nursing home also had terrible scores in several of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this datapoint. This is alarming when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a very poor nursing score.