Odem at Auglaize

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it received a B. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We were also pleasantly surprised to award this facility a relatively favorable health inspection grade as well. We gave it a B- in this category, which easily topped its overall score. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

The third highest area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. Our short-term care grade is generally used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 74.5098 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.