Village at the Greene

This facility received an impressive short-term care grade this year. We gave it a grade of B+ in this area. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an C. The nursing grade assesses several subcategories, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric.

This nursing home received its third best category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area, which is a decent score. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for residents requiring more conventional services associated with personal care. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home administered the vaccine to only 79.92565 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection ratings are based on a nursing home's recent inspections. We gave this facility a grade of just D in this category, which is a very poor grade. Our inspection scores weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 4 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.