Elms Retirement Village

Elms Retirement Village is a small nursing home located in Wellington, Ohio. It looks like this facility is a subpar facility. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. This isn't the worse place we graded, however, we would still be very reluctant to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall score, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility was awarded its second best category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.492386 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Sadly, this facility's next best category is short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively poorly. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed better in this area, with 51.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we graded was nursing, in which this facility was given a poor score in this category also. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. The nursing rating weighs several data points. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provided only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this measure.