Clifton Care Center

Clifton Care Center is a large nursing home located in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is a decent facility with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Cincinnati. Even in a city offering 74 other nursing homes, this nursing home looks like a respectable choice. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not something to panic about.

We also awarded this facility a strong grade in long-term care. This facility earned a B+ in this area, which turns out to be one of our more impressive grades. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 51.148224 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. There are a number of subcategories included in this category. Most of the criteria relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final category we assessed was short-term care, proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. This really is one of the few dings of an otherwise strong report card. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. It looks like this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we considered the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 40.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.