Buckeye Forest Madeira

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This nursing home had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility wound up receiving a rock-bottom score in our short-term care category. It was given an F in this area. In our short-term care score, we try to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The last area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was given an abysmal grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 97.33728 percent of its patients, which is a very solid percentage. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.