Altercare of Navarre Center for Rehab & Nrsg Care

Altercare of Navarre Center for Rehab & Nrsg Care is a facility located in Navarre, Ohio, which has a population of 9,656 people. Featuring an overall rating of B, this facility is a great choice. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this nursing home. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in that area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's quality category grades came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 54.4 percent of its residents returning home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. There are numerous datapoints included in this category. Most of these subcategories are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.2 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.72145 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.