Heartland of Perrysburg

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of B in nursing. We weighed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are probably most critical for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Our last area is long-term care, in which we gave this facility a B- in this category. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the amount of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home vaccinated just 77.72512 percent of its residents, which is well below average. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.