Diplomat Healthcare
9001 W 130th St, North Royalton OH 44133 · (440) 237-3104 · 96.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in North Royalton, Ohio, Diplomat Healthcare is one of just three available nursing homes in this area. This is a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our assessment, there are certainly far worse places out there. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also wanted to note that this facility was given strong short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in this category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest score. In crafting these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this facility performed much more favorably. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 63.8 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second worse score was long-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.67 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our last area, this nursing home did not fare very well. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is its worst category. The nursing rating assesses a handful of components, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Diplomat Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of quality of care.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home 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 enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better