Long Green Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home an impressive grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this area, which is one of our higher scores. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 91.807915 percent of its patients, which is a bit less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next most favorable category we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we analyzed was nursing, proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in that category. This really is one of just a few weak links on an otherwise strong report card. Our nursing rating is largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.