Country Club Rehabilitation Campus at Ashtabula

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that have too many deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a D for its short-term care rating, which turns out to be one of its better category scores. Short-term care grades are typically used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.28571 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home didn't perform very well in this area either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing grade consists of quite a few components, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.