Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin is in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a city with a population of 47,772 people. This facility received an overall grade of C, which is a decent grade. At the end of the day, this facility should be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this facility's report card was is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this area with an A-. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Short-term Care Quality
This facilities next best area was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a B- in this category. Long-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 81.437126 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
This facility's worst category was nursing, which is the final area we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. When determining a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is well below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are often associated with lower quality nursing care. More supervision minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents who had urinary tract infections. Although more infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 20.26% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression. Some believe this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 90.12% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility. Many argue that mobility is critical to residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 12 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Altercare of Cuyahoga Falls Center for Rehab & Nursin, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Cuyahoga Falls, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Summa Western Reserve HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.99 miles away1900 23rd Street Cuyahoga Falls Ohio 44223Voluntary non-profit - Other(330) 971-7000
- Summa Health SystemAcute Care Hospitals 4.96 miles away525 East Market Street Akron Ohio 44309Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 375-3000
- Akron General Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.66 miles away1 Akron General Avenue Akron Ohio 44307Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 344-6000
- University Hospitals Portage Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.14 miles away6847 N Chestnut Ravenna Ohio 44266Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 297-2300
- Medina HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.65 miles away1000 East Washington Street Medina Ohio 44256Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 725-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- U S Renal Care - Cuyahoga Falls0.9 miles away421 Portage Trail, Suite B Cuyahoga Falls Ohio 44221Dialysis Stations: 13 (330) 928-7970
- Ohio Renal Care Group LLC0.98 miles away320 Broadway St E Cuyahoga Falls Ohio 44221Dialysis Stations: 13 (330) 928-4511
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- Fmc - Akron East5.48 miles away199 Perkins Street Akron Ohio 44304CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (330) 376-7600
- Davita - Summit Renal Care6.1 miles away73 Massillon Road Akron Ohio 44312Dialysis Stations: 15 (330) 733-1861