Concord Care Center of Cortland

Concord Care Center of Cortland is a small nursing home in Cortland, Ohio. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a very poor facility. Keep in mind that Cortland received a city grade of B-, so should consider other options in the city as well. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

While we gave this facility a terrible overall score, we awarded it a grade of B for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care scores are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place performed as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this area with 59.6 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

As it turns out, its inspection reports were not the source of this facility's abysmal overall grade. It received a C in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you this facility avoided the more ominous categories of deficiencies. Finally, we want to note that this place has received some government fines recently. Fortunately these fines were not on the high end as government fines go. However, this is not what we like to see.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. The nursing rating analyzes a handful of subcategories, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place offered a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.

The final area we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel score in this area also. It received an F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.