Willow Brook Christian Village

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home received an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end resume, this facility also was given an excellent long-term care score, with a score of A. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.958336 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. This actually is this facility's least impressive category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.