Cardinal Woods Skilled Nursing & Rehab Center
6831 Chapel Road, Madison OH 44057 · (440) 428-5103 · 83.08% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Cardinal Woods Skilled Nursing & Rehab Center is a senior living facility located in Madison, Ohio, a city with 19,961 people. Our scoring scheme was not very kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall grade of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Madison. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care rating and that actually turned out to be its second highest score. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. We were far less impressed with the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.48 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is definitely an alarming figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Another issue was the F this nursing home was given in the area of short-term care. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 39.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
The next category we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. In determining our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provided only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these statistics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cardinal Woods Skilled Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better