Buckeye Care and Rehabilitation

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B in that category, which is one of our better. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.21875 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third area we analyzed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a C. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

The next category we assessed was nursing, turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. This really is one of the couple of weak points on a very solid report card. There are numerous factors included in this grade. Many of these data points are tied to nurse staffing. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is well below average. On top of its below average nursing hours, this nursing home also earned poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this place's residents sustained falls leading to major injury.