Bowerston Hills Nursing & Rehabilitation

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given strong scores in the area of long-term care as well. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 89.87342 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing rating includes several subcategories, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic.

The next area we looked at is short-term care, is this facility's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that area. This was one of the few dings of a strong profile. In crafting our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.