Cleveland Health Care Center

Cleveland Health Care Center is a senior living facility located in Cleveland, Texas, a city with 34,153 people. With an overall score of B-, this appears to be a decent facility. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

This nursing home really fared well in the category of long-term care, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. If not for this grade, this place's overall score would have been lower. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. The last datapoint we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 3.32 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the medical complexity of residents.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as 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 health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. There are numerous factors included in this category. Many of these criteria are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility was above average in two of the major areas we focus on, with good marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we rated was short-term care, which is this facility's least impressive area. We gave it an F in this area, which is obviously concerning. Our short-term care ratings are critical for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 36.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.