The Graybrier Nurs & Retirement Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.

We also awarded this nursing home a favorable grade in long-term care. This facility earned a B in this area, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.35691 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. It looks like this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the staffing figures we assessed. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.6 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

The final area we rated was nursing, is this facility's weakest area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This really is one of just a few dings in a very solid profile. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really dragged down this nursing home's nursing rating substantially.