Laurel Baye Healthcare of Greenville

Laurel Baye Healthcare of Greenville is just one of 12 possibilities in Greenville, South Carolina. It looks like this nursing home is among the better nursing homes we looked at. A grade of this caliber requires very strong marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the United States. This facility also received very consistent ratings in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections ended up being its best category. In this area, we gave this nursing home an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.76134 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.68 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. In determining these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home improved its score in this category by providing more than 1.5 times as many physical therapy hours than a typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 57 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

The final category we graded is nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. While this ended up being its least impressive category grade, this is still a strong score. The nursing grade weighs a variety of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.