Eastgate Health Care Center

With over 20 facilities to choose from in Cincinnati, Ohio, Eastgate Health Care Center is one of the multitude of facilities here. With an overall score of B+. After grading the other choices in Cincinnati, this looks like a better selection than the majority of them. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a good fit for quite a few people. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a high-end short-term care score. We awarded them an impressive strong of A in this category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This nursing home excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 59.9 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's third best area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this area. Our long-term care grades are based on a nursing home's amount of nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.81917 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not too far off the national average.

The final category we scored is nursing. This nursing home received an above average nursing rating in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this is not quite as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless a respectable score for that area. There are a number of criteria included in this area. Most of the subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.