Euclid Subacute Care Center

Euclid Subacute Care Center is a small hospital-based facility located in Cleveland, Ohio. Sporting an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is undoubtedly a world class facility. Even in a city of 49 nursing homes, this nursing home stood out. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category grades, which look to be equally strong as its overall grade.

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this area. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 73.9 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This facility also received a virtually flawless inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. This is one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

Turning the page to our next area, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a first-rate score. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we scored, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home topped off a straight A report card. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This place provides an incredible 6.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.