Aristocrat Berea Healthcare and Rehabilitation

We did not have any positive things to say about this facility's overall score or its category grades. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 92.19331 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating and that actually turned out to be its second best score. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Based on its poor rating in this category, we weren't surprised to find this facility provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

This place received an F for its inspection grade. This is a very important category. Scores in this range usually mean we found some red flags on the facility's government inspections. When a place has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

The final area we assessed was nursing. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is a poor grade. Nursing grades are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.