Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center is located in Wheelersburg, Ohio. This city has 12,147 people. This facility is a well below average facility. A grade in this range suggests we found a few red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Wheelersburg. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection reports. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades
Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's second most favorable score is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 94.73684 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
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Short-term Care Quality
Another concern is the F this nursing home received in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Given its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we assessed is nursing, where this facility received a poor grade in this area also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely associated with lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients that have sustained UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay residents which were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 20.26% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 90.12% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Some believe that mobility is important for residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.36 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 12 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
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Nearby Dialysis
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