Heartland of Beavercreek

This facility's overall score was propped up by the fact that it has received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in this area, with a B+. This is a notably better score than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities 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. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this nursing home's recent inspections.

Another one of this facility's better category grades came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more critical for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. The nursing category consists of several datapoints, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

The final area we looked at was long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 91.70731 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.