Berea Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection scores are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's long-term care grade is one of its best grades. The facility was given a grade of B- in this category. In determining our long-term care ratings, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living offered to a nursing home's residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 85.36585 percent of its patients, which is well below average. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is considered to be a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. With a grade in this range in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place was below average in several staffing areas we looked at. It supplied far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a very poor score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. Our nursing grade considers many factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.