Azria Health-Ashland

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Despite this deficiency, this nursing home still received a relatively favorable report.

This nursing home's short-term care rating turns out to be one of its respectable scores. The facility was awarded a C in this area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

This facility's second worse category was long-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average score. When facilities 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. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 42.810455 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home didn't perform very well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing rating includes a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. This facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this measure. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing score quite a bit.