Falls Village Retirement Community

Falls Village Retirement Community is an average-sized nursing home located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This nursing home received an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable rating. Indeed, this turned out to be better than many of the nursing homes in Cuyahoga Falls. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so well is that it was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, short-term care ended up being its second highest category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This facility was satisfactory in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered a reasonable level of care from both physical therapists and registered nurses. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 66.3 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we scored was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B-. This was this facility's weakest area. This is still not the end of the world. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 95.970695 percent of its patients, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.