Christian Care Center of Medina

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home earned 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 pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a first-rate long-term care grade. Indeed, this is its second most impressive category score. In that area, this facility received a grade of A-. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.454544 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. In forming our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we rated is nursing, in which this facility received a grade of B-. Even though this is its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. In determining our nursing scores, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We look at the percentage of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these problems.