Groesbeck Ltc Partners

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also received an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a grade of B in that area, which happens to be one of our better. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. Nursing ratings are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's weakest category. Short-term care grades are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a score this poor in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in several staffing areas we focus on. It offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.