Butler County Care Facility

Although we were not complementary of this facility's overall grade, it received an impressive nursing grade this year. We gave it a B in this area. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's second best category is short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

This facilities third most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 77.64706 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this grade more heavily than other categories. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years exceeding $50,000. This usually signifies that CMS inspectors became fed up after several years of bad inspections.