Cortland Center
369 N High Street, Cortland OH 44410 · (330) 638-4015 · 83.23% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Cortland Center is a small facility in Cortland, Ohio. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor facility. Based on our analysis, this facility may not be the best fit for most prospective residents. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection reports. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 68 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. Our short-term care scores are arguably most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home and discovered this was this facility's strongest datapoint within this category. This place fared well in this metric with 61.7 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to its below average nursing hour totals, this place received suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this place's patients sustained falls leading to major injury.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our final area, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinates 99.462364 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cortland Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient 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 patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better