Jennings Hall

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave it an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also was awarded a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this nursing home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 62.2 percent of its residents returning home. For most nursing homes, less than half of their short-term patients ever return home.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. While we determined this nursing home has an impressive quantity of nursing care provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat low. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.519646 percent of its residents. This is a statistic we'd really like to see this facility improve on. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. While it had 2.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

Our next category is nursing, in which we awarded this facility a grade of B- in this category. There are several factors included in this grade. Many of the subcategories are tied to nurse staffing. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing grades, we add more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is usually a good measure of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.