First Community Village Healthcare Center

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received high marks in our short-term care category as well. It received our highest score in that category with a score of A+. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among its many impressive grades, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing rating. We gave it a grade of B+ in that category. The nursing rating analyzes several factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients more frequently.

This nursing home also received first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The next area we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a C. Although this proved to be its weakest category rating, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 67.60564 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a bit less than average. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.