Aristocrat Berea Healthcare and Rehabilitation

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our long-term care rating. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.40866 percent of its patients. This is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility really didn't perform horribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it a C for that category. Other categories turned out to be the source of its rock bottom overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This indicates it dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in that category. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its poor rating in this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next area we graded is nursing, in which this facility received a poor grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.