Batavia Nursing Care Center

Batavia Nursing Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Batavia, Ohio. This nursing home received an overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor score. As far as we can see, we would be very reluctant to recommend this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 86.77249 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had a relatively high 3.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this nursing home in this area.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we learned that this nursing home provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility did not fare well here either. We found that just 45.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was below average.

The last area we rated is nursing, is this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.