The Laurels of Steubenville is an average-sized nursing home in Steubenville, Ohio. Featuring an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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The Laurels of Steubenville
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
We would like to note that this facility's short-term care score outpaced its overall grade. This nursing home received a B+ in this area, which is a very solid grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
This facility's inspection grade also was better than its overall grade. Due to a quality inspection report this year, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing grade analyzes several subcategories, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, while this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next category, this nursing home was given an acceptable long-term care grade of C. Our long-term care scores are more critical for folks in need of more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.17518 percent of its residents, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Laurels of Steubenville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 4.57% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents who developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 5.47% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of long-term residents which experienced falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric can be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 10.29% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 18.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term residents that are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 6.12% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 97.65% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 19.14% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 14.35% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many believe that mobility is important for patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 14.35% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 10.54% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Laurels of Steubenville, 81.4% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Scores for Steubenville, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of D
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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Nearby Hospitals
- Weirton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.3 miles away601 Colliers Way Weirton West Virginia 26062Government - Local(304) 797-6000
- East Liverpool City HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.02 miles away425 West 5th Street East Liverpool Ohio 43920Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 385-7200
- East Ohio Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.08 miles away90 North Fourth Street Martins Ferry Ohio 43935Voluntary non-profit - Other(740) 633-4205
- Harrison Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.19 miles away951 East Market Street Cadiz Ohio 43907Voluntary non-profit - Private(740) 942-4631
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Steubenville Home Training Center0.58 miles away1799 Sinclair Avenue Suite 2 Steubenville Ohio 43952Dialysis Stations: 6 (740) 346-2740
- Davita - Steubenville Dialysis0.65 miles away1799 Sinclair Avenue Suite 1 Steubenville Ohio 43953CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (740) 346-2840
- Dialysis Clinic Inc.1.54 miles away4227 Mall Drive Steubenville Ohio 43952Dialysis Stations: 12 (740) 266-6687
- Weirton Dialysis Center6.96 miles away100 Colliers Way Suite 1 Weirton West Virginia 26062Dialysis Stations: 17 (304) 748-7384
- Davita - Paris Dialysis7.33 miles away32 Steubenville Pike Burgettstown Pennsylvania 15021Dialysis Stations: 17 (724) 729-3350
- Dci - East Liverpool18.06 miles away325 West 6th Street East Liverpool Ohio 43920CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (330) 382-0835