Hennis Care Centre of Dover

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home fared well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 57.8 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. When determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a decent long-term care grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are based on the facility's amount of nursing services. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After looking at the impressive nursing hours provided by this facility, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.121956 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.92 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.