The Waters of Greencastle

The Waters of Greencastle is a senior living facility located in Greencastle, Indiana, a city with 20,992 people. This is a good nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Greencastle. Based on our ratings, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of most people. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our long-term care category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed at a high level in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. Our nursing score features several datapoints. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility's worst area was short-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 40.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this facility's short-term care score.