Legacy Place Twinsburg

On top of a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned favorable short-term care grades this year. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a B+. Our short-term care grades are vital for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Moving on to the final category, this facility was awarded a C in long-term care, which is a decent rating. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.