Life Care Center of Cleveland

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home fared well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area, which turns out to be one of our most elite grades. Short-term care ratings are critical for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory.

The last category we graded is long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of C. This was this nursing home's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 99.60784 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.