The Green Home

With an address in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, The Green Home is one of just a few available nursing homes in this area. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires respectable marks in most areas. Based on the data we reviewed, you can do much worse than this facility. This place is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are arguably more critical for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. It performed better than most facilities in the country with 55.5 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's next best category was its long-term care grade, where it was given a B-. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. On top of providing solid levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.655914 percent of its patients. This percentage is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.8 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place is not too far off the national average.

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home was given a respectable nursing score of B-. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this facility surpassed the national average. We also look at the skill levels of these nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Lastly, we also weighed some quality-based assessments. This nursing home scored well in some of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home beat the national average. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care.