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 relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility also received an impressive long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 85.79235 percent of its patients. This is a few points less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The last area we rated is short-term care, turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. This really is one of just a few dings of a very solid report card. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this nursing home offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.