Concord Health & Rehab Center
1242 Crescent Drive, Wheelersburg OH 45694 · (740) 574-8441 · 81.26% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Concord Health & Rehab Center is a facility located in Wheelersburg, Ohio, a city with a population of 12,147 people. With an overall rating of B-, this appears to be a decent nursing home. This facility has some things working in its favor. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 87 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another strength of this nursing home is its strong grade in long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of A-. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 87.77778 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Despite having 1.75 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complicated patients.
Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care score, which is not an impressive grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. This nursing home a bit in this area, with just 48 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Nurse Quality
The final category we analyzed was nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. The nursing score is based on many subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. On top of its subpar nursing hours, this facility earned suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing ratings. We found that more of this place's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing score.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Concord Health & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better