Altercare of Canal Winchester

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of short-term care. In fact, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with an A. With our short-term care rating, we seek to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. Few nursing homes with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home was given a decent long-term care grade. Even though this wasn't nearly as strong as several of its other grades, this is still not a bad grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated just 88.57143 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.