Harrison Trail Health Campus

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we gave this place an A+ for inspections. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. We were not able to track down deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Clearly we were satisfied with what we found here in this area.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This particular facility provided 5.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the highest figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in Ohio in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered.

The final category we scored is short-term care. We gave this facility an acceptable score in that area, with a grade of B-. Although this isn't on par with some of its other grades, it is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.