Friendship Village of Dublin

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing rating assesses several components, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 facility Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a favorable nursing score this year, with a B. Although this wasn't quite as good as a few of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive scores for that area. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.82539 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.