Ayden Healthcare of Ohio

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A-. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a list of deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second most respectable category was short-term care, but even there it earned a grade of just D in that area. This ended up being a well below average grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is generally a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. When determining our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we rated is long-term care. This facility received a poor grade of F in that area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 56.578945 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit below average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.