Eliza Jennings Home
10603 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland OH 44102 · (216) 226-0282 · 92.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Eliza Jennings Home is a large non-profit nursing home in Cleveland, Ohio. Featuring an overall grade of B, this looks like a good nursing home. In fact, we thought highly enough of this facility to rate it ahead of the majority of the facilities in Cleveland. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 126 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 89.37198 percent of its patients. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home received a favorable short-term care grade, with a B in the category. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in the country in this area with 53.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Our next category is nursing, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in that category. There are numerous subcategories included in this area. Many of these factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these data points. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this datapoint.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Eliza Jennings Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better