Liberty Nursing Center of Colerain

While this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform terribly in the category of short-term care. We awarded it a C for that category, which is a decent score. However, this was not enough to salvage its profile. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's next most favorable score is long-term care, but it still earned a grade of just D in that area. This ended up being a well below average score. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 90.45643 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be most cautious when considering a nursing home that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This often means that a nursing home's poor performance spanned several years.

The final area we rated was nursing, where this facility was given an abysmal score here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Our nursing rating weighs several components, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls 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 hurt this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.