Euclid Subacute Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care scores are probably more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. 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. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Continuing with its amazing performance, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on its recent inspection reports. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The fourth category we graded is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of A. This rounded out a very strong profile. Not many nursing homes received an A- or higher in every category. 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 data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.