Copley Health Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. There are quite a few factors included in this category. Most of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient even once per day.

Sadly, this facility's second best category was inspections, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Inspection scores weigh many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this facility received significant government fines totaling more than $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home'spoor performance spanned multiple years.

This nursing home wound up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care area. It received a lowly F in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. With its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.1 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.

The final area we rated is long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. We were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 75.58528 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.