Bellbrook Health and Rehab

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned a very impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A-. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that have too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next most favorable score was short-term care, but it still received just a D in that category. This ended up being a well below average grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is considered to be a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. With its poor grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. There are a variety of datapoints within this area. Most of the subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we scored was long-term care, where this facility received a very poor grade in this area also. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is obviously very concerning. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated just 76.344086 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.