Friendship Village of Dublin is a facility located in Dublin, Ohio, which has a population of 68,932 people. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this is undoubtedly a high quality facility. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. This place also received consistently good scores in all four of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Friendship Village of Dublin
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient at least once a day.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with a score of A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home was given a high-end long-term care grade. Although this was not quite as impressive as many of its other category grades, this is still one of the more favorable grades a facility can receive. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.27007 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Friendship Village of Dublin Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are often associated with lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 20.26% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 90.12% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 1.36 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 12 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Friendship Village of Dublin, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Dublin, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Dublin, Ohio has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Dublin Methodist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.92 miles away7500 Hospital Avenue Dublin Ohio 43016Voluntary non-profit - Private(614) 544-8000
- Riverside Methodist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.68 miles away3535 Olentangy River Rd Columbus Ohio 43214Voluntary non-profit - Private(614) 566-5000
- Ohio State University HospitalsAcute Care Hospitals 8.08 miles away410 West 10th Avenue Columbus Ohio 43210Government - State(614) 293-9700
- Mount Carmel St Ann'sAcute Care Hospitals 8.65 miles away500 South Cleveland Avenue Westerville Ohio 43081Voluntary non-profit - Private(614) 898-4000
- Twin Valley Behavioral HealthcarePsychiatric 9.6 miles away2200 West Broad Street Columbus Ohio 43223Government - Local(614) 752-0333
- Doctors HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.63 miles away5100 West Broad Street Columbus Ohio 43228Voluntary non-profit - Church(614) 544-1000
- Mount Carmel WestAcute Care Hospitals 10.18 miles away793 West State Street Columbus Ohio 43222Voluntary non-profit - Private(614) 234-5000
- Grant Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.82 miles away111 South Grant Avenue Columbus Ohio 43215Voluntary non-profit - Church(614) 566-9000
Nearby Dialysis
- Nxstage Kidney Care/Nxstage Columbus LLC0.75 miles away5665 Woerner Temple Road Dublin Ohio 43016Dialysis Stations: 10 (614) 915-3040
- Davita - Canal Winchester1.39 miles away3568 Gender Road Canal Winchester Ohio 43110Dialysis Stations: 13 (614) 834-3564
- Fmc - Columbus Northwest2.75 miles away6670 Perimeter Drive, Suite 180 Dublin Ohio 43016Dialysis Stations: 13 (614) 718-2863
- Davita - Dublin4.05 miles away6770 Perimeter Drive Dublin Ohio 43016Dialysis Stations: 12 (614) 798-8359
- Bio-Medical Applications of Ohio, Inc.4.19 miles away758 Communications Parkway Columbus Ohio 43217Dialysis Stations: 12 (614) 538-1060
- Davita - Columbus Dialysis5.23 miles away226 Graceland Blvd. - Suite 3-09a Columbus Ohio 43214CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (614) 985-1732
- Davita - Hilliard Station Dialysis6.64 miles away2447 Hilliard Rome Road Hilliard Ohio 43026Dialysis Stations: 13 (614) 876-3610
- Fmc - Central Ohio7.1 miles away4661 Karl Road Columbus Ohio 43229CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (614) 840-0012