Centerburg Pointe

With an address in Centerburg, Ohio, Centerburg Pointe is one of just a couple facilities in this area. We gave this facility an alarming overall grade based on the data we looked at. This nursing home did not have much going for it. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it earned a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also didn't fare terribly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C for that category, which happens to be among its higher scores. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is typically a solid measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This place fared much better in this area with 57.6 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care score. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 33.333332 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.2 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The last area we assessed is nursing. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in this area. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place averaged only 2.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.