Altercare of Canal Winchester

On top of being a quality facility overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A-. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Among this facility's other strengths is its superb short-term care grade. It received one of our most impressive grades in that category, with a grade of A-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. The nursing grade assesses many datapoints, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.

The final area we assessed was long-term care, which was this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this category. Of course, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 90.41096 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.