Laurels of West Carrollton The

With over 20 facilities to choose from in Dayton, Ohio, Laurels of West Carrollton The is one of the multitude of facilities here. This is a subpar nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our assessment, we would struggle to recommend this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection grade. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's second best area is its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home and found that this facility performed better here. In fact, this nursing home performed better than most nursing homes in the country in this area with 53.1 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 92.98245 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic wasn't bad due to it having some more complicated patients. This was its best score in this category

The last category we analyzed is nursing, where this nursing home received a very poor grade in this area also. It received an F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. There are a host of data points within this area. Most of the data points reflect staffing levels. This nursing home provides 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place was above average in two of the statistics we considered, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.