Laurels of Mt Vernon The

Laurels of Mt Vernon The is a facility in Mount Vernon, Ohio, which has 29,050 people. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not satisfied with this facility's mediocre overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are five other nursing homes in Mount Vernon. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this place a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This was the result of the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even with this deficiency, this place still received a relatively positive inspection report.

This facility also didn't fare too badly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C in that category, which is another one of its more favorable scores. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 53.9 percent of its residents returning home.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which is well below average in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.45201 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The last area we analyzed was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal score. Our nursing score considers a host of subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.