Ashtabula County Nursing Home

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that area, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's next highest category is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home was given its third most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's least impressive area was nursing, which is the final area we looked at. We gave it a lowly F for this category. Even with multiple respectable grades in other categories, this score is still concerning so we wanted to draw your attention to it. The nursing grade includes several components, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.