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. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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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
This facility was awarded its second most favorable category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a decent grade. Our long-term care ratings are more important for residents needing more traditional services associated with personal care. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 97.196266 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in this area. Our short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded was nursing. This facility received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. In computing our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
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, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients which experienced falls which caused severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.8% of Patients had UTIs
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained UTI's. UTI's may be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.22% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used to treat several conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 22.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 20% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 90.19% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 15.17% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and bathing. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 18.5% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 18.5 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Best Care Nursing & Rehab Center, 74.54% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Kings Daughters Medical Center OhioAcute Care Hospitals 8.73 miles away1901 Argonne Road Portsmouth Ohio 45662Voluntary non-profit - Private(740) 991-4000
- Our Lady of Bellefonte HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.62 miles away1000 Saint Christopher Drive Ashland Kentucky 41101Voluntary non-profit - Private(606) 833-3600
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Portsmouth8.09 miles away1648 11th Street Portsmouth Ohio 45662Dialysis Stations: 12 (740) 353-7788
- Dci - Portsmouth8.46 miles away1207 17th Street Portsmouth Ohio 45662CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (740) 351-0596
- Fmc - Ironton16.14 miles away158 N 2nd Street Ironton Ohio 45638Dialysis Stations: 16 (740) 532-3099