Copley Health Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our short-term care rating. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. We gave it a C for that category. Other categories were the source of its rock bottom overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This indicates this facility avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in nursing. We gave it an D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. There are several factors within this category. Many of these subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a poor grade. Facilities that do not score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 83.139534 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.