Dayton Nursing and Rehabilitation

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the category of long-term care, we awarded this facility a grade of A- in that category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 89.91596 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this area. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient at least once a day.

This nursing home's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the last category we looked at. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.