Bethany Nursing Home

Bethany Nursing Home is an average-sized nursing home located in Canton, Ohio. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. Indeed, we ranked this facility as the third best nursing home in Canton. One of the best aspects of this facility's remarkable report card is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This place offers an impressive 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is among the better totals in the state. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Adding to its strong assessment, this facility also was given an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This place fared better than most facilities in this area with 54.4 percent of its residents returning home.

In the last category we scored, this facility received a very favorable grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of offering very favorable levels of nurse staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.