Enniscourt Nursing Care

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.42519 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also was superb in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities received a better grade in this category. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another quality feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its nursing rating. This rounded out a first-rate report card. The nursing grade considers several subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.