Gardens of Mcgregor and Amasa Stone

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in our short-term care category. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest grades. This is one of the few facilities with an overall grade in this range which earned multiple category grades this high. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

The next category we scored was long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. Although this turned out to be its poorest category score, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. Long-term care grades are pivotal for residents in need of personal care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.65471 percent of its residents, which is an above average datapoint. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.