Buckeye Terrace Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

We were not high on this place's overall grade or its category grades. We gave it just a D for our inspections rating and that proved to be its highest grade. Inspection ratings factor in many items found on the facility's inspection reports. When you find severe deficiencies on the reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 27 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

This nursing home's second highest score was short-term care, but it nevertheless received just a D in that category. This still happens to be a relatively poor score. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home did not perform very well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 88.34952 percent of its residents. This is significantly lower than the national average. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.