Advantage Living Center - Warren

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home had 7 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled J through L. This tells you inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to place resident health or safety in imminent harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing score is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This number is far below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility was given an F. Our short-term care scores are crucial for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility received a poor score here also. We gave it an F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 45.77114 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.