Butler County Care Facility

This nursing home earned a nursing grade which is stronger than its overall score. We gave this facility an above average grade of B+ in this category. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0 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 also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, which happens to be one of our better. 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, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on to government inspections, we gave this nursing home a D for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this facility received large government fines recently in excess of $50,000. This typically indicates that CMS inspectors grew tired after several years of failed inspections.

The final area we graded is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is certainly concerning. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.650795 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.