Life Care Center of Hilliard

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

On the list of its many dominant grades, this nursing home received first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this area. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.02439 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category we assessed, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the facility topped off a very impressive profile. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.