Englewood Health & Rehabilitation Center

Englewood Health & Rehabilitation Center is a small government-owned facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some decent scores. Even in a city featuring 26 other nursing homes, this facility should be a respectable choice. The best part of this facility's profile is is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also was given a favorable short-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in this area, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This place fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 53.9 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. In determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as minimizing major falls. This facility performed admirably in this metric. Avoiding serious falls is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be prevented if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

The next area we assessed was long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. This was one of the few dings on an otherwise impressive profile. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.43434 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we expected. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.