Capri Gardens

Capri Gardens is an average-sized facility in Lewis Center, Ohio. With an overall score of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the more impressive nursing homes we looked at. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the nation. As you can see below, this nursing home also performed well in our category ratings. It is hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

One of the reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its strong achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care score. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Overall this looks like a good option in terms of its long-term care rating.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing score is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in Ohio in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we scored is short-term care, in which this facility was given a B. Even though this proved to be its least impressive category grade, this is still a quality grade. Our short-term care ratings are likely most meaningful for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered significantly more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.