Brethren Care Village Health Care Center is located in Ashland, Ohio. This is a fine nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good grade. You can certainly do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.
Brethren Care Village Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for short-term care. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
This facility also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we rated is long-term care, where this facility received a B-. This ended up being this facility's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. With our long-term care grade, we weigh the volume of care offered by a nursing home, along with some quality statistics. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brethren Care Village Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who sustained a fall resulting in major injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This gauges the percentage of long-term patients which sustained urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 20.26% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 90.12% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 1.36 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 12 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brethren Care Village Health Care Center, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Ashland, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Wooster Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.11 miles away1761 Beall Avenue Wooster Ohio 44691Government - Local(330) 263-8100
- Ohiohealth Shelby HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.56 miles away199 West Main Street Shelby Ohio 44875Voluntary non-profit - Private(419) 342-5015
- Lodi Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.89 miles away225 Elyria Street Lodi Ohio 44254Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 948-1222
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Ashland County1.95 miles away1100 Redwood Drive Ashland Ohio 44805CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (419) 281-7800
- Fmc - Mansfield Kidney Center15.07 miles away647 Bally Row Mansfield Ohio 44906CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (419) 775-1730
- Fmc - Richland County15.09 miles away680 Bally Row Mansfield Ohio 44906CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (419) 774-0180
- Davita - Mid Ohio Dialysis16.02 miles away2148 W 4th St Mansfield Ohio 44906Dialysis Stations: 13 (419) 747-4039
- Davita Wooster Dialysis18.36 miles away4190 Burbank Road Wooster, Ohio Wooster Ohio 44691Dialysis Stations: 12 (330) 345-1130
- Fmc - Wayne County Kidney Center18.53 miles away387 West Milltown Rd Wooster Ohio 44691CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (330) 345-2060