Odem at Auglaize

Although we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections rating. This is due to the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid places that have too many deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an F. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Our next area we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home received an F. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we looked at was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a poor grade here as well. It received an F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After considering the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated only 69.53125 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.