Beavercreek Health and Rehab

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care rating, which turns out to be one of its more respectable category grades. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 95.16729 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its grade in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.6 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we scored was nursing, in which this nursing home received a poor grade in this category as well. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. There are several data points within this category. Many of these criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 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 determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.