Cortland Center is a small nursing home in Cortland, Ohio. With an overall score of D, this is a subpar facility. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Cortland. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Cortland Center
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
369 N High Street,
Cortland OH 44410
73.38% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best category was its short-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of C. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that it performed much better in this metric with 58 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next highest area was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for those in need of more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 88.31168 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our final category, this nursing home did not perform well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place offered a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is 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 nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cortland Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cortland Center, 7.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cortland Center, 3.62% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely linked to poor nursing care. More supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cortland Center, 1.75% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cortland Center, 12.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cortland Center, 22.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cortland Center, 19.84% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cortland Center, 90.11% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cortland Center, 15.05% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cortland Center, 18.59% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that maintained mobility. Some argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cortland Center, 18.59 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cortland Center, 11.79 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cortland Center, 74.53% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mh St Joseph Warren HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.91 miles away667 Eastland Ave Se Warren Ohio 44481Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 841-4016
- Trumbull Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.01 miles away1350 East Market Street Warren Ohio 44482Proprietary(330) 841-9820
- Sharon Regional Health SystemAcute Care Hospitals 13.77 miles away740 East State Street Sharon Pennsylvania 16146Proprietary(724) 983-3800
- Mh St Elizabeth Youngstown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.84 miles away1044 Belmont Avenue Youngstown Ohio 44501Voluntary non-profit - Church(330) 480-3962
- Upmc HorizonAcute Care Hospitals 18.91 miles away110 North Main Street Greenville Pennsylvania 16125Voluntary non-profit - Private(724) 588-2100
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Warren0.47 miles away2100 Millenium Blvd Cortland Ohio 44410CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (330) 372-4030
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- Champion Dialysis Center7.32 miles away4554 Mahoning Ave Nw Warren Ohio 44483CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (330) 847-0189
- Fresenius Kidney Care-Warren9.41 miles away4941 Enterprise Blvd. Nw Warren Ohio 44481Dialysis Stations: 16 (330) 898-0801
- Youngstown - Warren Home Dialysis12.94 miles away4531 Belmont Ave. Youngstown Ohio 44505Dialysis Stations: 3 (330) 759-3807
- Dci of Shenango Valley15.39 miles away737 Brookshire Drive Hermitage Pennsylvania 16148Dialysis Stations: 19 (724) 342-3040
- Fmc - Youngstown15.57 miles away1340 Belmont Avenue Youngstown Ohio 44504CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (330) 746-2860
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Hermitage16.25 miles away3036 Innovation Way Hermitage Pennsylvania 16148CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (724) 981-1328