Dayton Nursing and Rehabilitation

This nursing home received a strong overall score as discussed above, but we wanted to emphasize its excellent long-term care grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 87.15596 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. There are many subcategories included in this category. Most of these criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients even once per day.

The final category we graded was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of B-. This is this facility's least impressive area. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.