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.

This facility also didn't fare poorly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a C in that category, which is another one of its higher scores. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of long-term care. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 97.45763 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.