Greenbrier Health Care Center

Even though we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we actually awarded it a strong grade in long-term care, where it earned a B. This is better than many facilities in this area. This propped up an otherwise poor profile. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.333336 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a nursing home that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines amounting to over $100,000. This often signifies that a poor track record has been an issue for several years.

The next area we scored was short-term care, ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Considering its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.