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 84.210526 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.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an D. The nursing score assesses quite a few factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's weakest category was short-term care, which is the final area we scored. For this area, we gave this facility a grade of D. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Not surprisingly, we learned that this nursing home provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.