Greystone Health Care Center is a large nursing home located in Blountville, Tennessee. This is a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. This place has some things working in its favor. The best part of this place's report card is its exemplary inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Greystone Health Care Center
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
181 Dunlap Road,
Blountville TN 37617
56.56% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
One of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. In our long-term care assessment, we weigh the amount of services offered by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative statistics. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 96.742676 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Although it had 3.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not too far off the national average.
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Nurse Quality
Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. We gave this facility an D. In determining a facility's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the source of this facility's poor nursing grade. This place provides 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is actually better than we expected. In determining our ratings, we apply additional weight to hours performed by highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility did not perform as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was above the national average in both statistics. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility did not perform well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was this facility's worst area. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 28.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Greystone Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Greystone Health Care Center, 9.49% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Greystone Health Care Center, 3.51% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who had a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Greystone Health Care Center, 3.12% of Patients had UTIs
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that have experienced a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric can also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Greystone Health Care Center, 15.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used for several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Greystone Health Care Center, 29.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Greystone Health Care Center, 8.77% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Greystone Health Care Center, 89.84% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Greystone Health Care Center, 16.62% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Greystone Health Care Center, 26.14% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many argue that mobility is important for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Greystone Health Care Center, 1.21 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Greystone Health Care Center, 26.14 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Greystone Health Care Center, 11.25 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Greystone Health Care Center, 72.83% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
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- Franklin Woods Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.61 miles away300 Med Tech Parkway Johnson City Tennessee 37604Voluntary non-profit - Private(423) 302-1120
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- Sycamore Shoals HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.89 miles away1501 West Elk Avenue Elizabethton Tennessee 37643Voluntary non-profit - Private(423) 542-1300
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