Hearth & Care of Greenfield

Hearth & Care of Greenfield is a small nursing home located in Greenfield, Ohio. We gave this facility an overall grade of D. A grade of this caliber typically indicates some concerning datapoints. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Greenfield. The city has just one other nursing home. The only positive thing we can really say about this place is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories is available below.

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home was awarded its second highest category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 44.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

Sadly, this facility only received a D for its long-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 68.702286 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.29 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final area we graded was nursing, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of nursing. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.