Hickory Creek at Greensburg

Hickory Creek at Greensburg is a small government-owned nursing home located in Greensburg, Indiana. With an overall rating of B-, this is a solid nursing home. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 92.24138 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next area we graded is short-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this area. In crafting these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 37.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.