College Hill Nursing & Rehab Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. There are a variety of subcategories within this area. Most of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This nursing home also didn't perform poorly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C in that category, which ended up being another one of its better grades. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility was given just a D in that area. Nursing homes that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this facility administered the vaccine to only 88.11475 percent of its patients, which is well below average. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

In our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a horrible grade. For facilities with bad inspection grades, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.