Berea Health and Rehabilitation

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. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. At the end of the day, this was a generally favorable inspection report.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this category. Sadly, this ended up being one of its best areas. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. The nursing grade weighs numerous subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we graded was short-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Based on its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home.