Pruitthealth - Greenville

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's next best area was its short-term care grade, where it was given a C. In forming our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The third highest area we awarded this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a C. Long-term care grades are used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.528305 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we analyzed is nursing, which was this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this category. Our nursing grade weighs several components, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this area.