Butler County Care Facility

Butler County Care Facility is a nursing home located in Hamilton, Ohio. This city has a population of 134,328 people. Our rating scheme was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall score of F. This is one of the five worst rated facilities in Hamilton based on the data we assessed. With many other nursing homes in the city, you may simply want to look elsewhere. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our long-term care rating. In our long-term care category, we focus more on the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a series of qualitative statistics. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 67.96117 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of patients.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Nursing scores are largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 2.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. One of the more important factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 8 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Turning to our fourth category, this facility really didn't perform very well in this area either. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 37.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.