Odem at Auglaize

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We believe that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We were also stunned to discover that this facility earned a somewhat respectable short-term care score this year. We awarded it a C in this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we graded was long-term care. We gave it an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 73.62637 percent of its patients. This is significantly less than average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.