Kindred Hospital East Greensboro

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave it a grade of A+ for this area, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this facility's list of achievements, it also was given a top-shelf long-term care grade. We awarded them a strong strong of A in this category. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facilities third best area was short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

This facility's weakest category is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. For this category, we gave this nursing home a D. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. With just 0.8 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.