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One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In that category, we awarded it an A. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite long-term care grade. It received one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A-. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the well above average volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination data. For example, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home was given its third highest category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this area, which is a respectable score. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This place performed better than most nursing homes with 55.5 percent of its residents returning home.

Our next category is nursing, in which we gave this nursing home a grade of C in this area. Nursing scores are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the higher totals in Ohio. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.