Avenue at Broadview Heights

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. Our long-term care scores are more important for patients in need of more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 95.588234 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. Our nursing rating assesses many components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we rated is short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Given its grade in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.