Avenue at Wooster

This nursing home earned a nursing grade which is stronger than its overall score. We gave this nursing home an above average score of B in this category. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We would also like to point out this facility's strong inspection grade. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Sadly, this facility's next best category is short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat poorly. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This facility's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.34884 percent of its residents, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.