Ayden Healthcare of Ohio

While we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections category. This was the result of the facility receiving a decent government inspection report this year. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Considering its weak grade in this category, we weren't shocked to find this nursing home provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Nursing grades are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. It received an F for this area, which is a rock bottom grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.5368 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.