Carriage Inn of Dayton

In addition to having a decent overall rating, we also would like to point out that this place earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with a B+. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall grade. Our inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. In the category of long-term care, we assess the amount of care offered by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid total. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next best area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The final category we looked at is nursing, which proved to be a low point for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for the area of nursing. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place was above average in two of the statistics we considered, with good scores for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These metrics are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care available.