Life Care Center of Medina

Life Care Center of Medina is a nursing home located in Medina, Ohio, a city with a total of 62,039 people. This is a strong facility with a grade of B+ overall. We were pleased to find out that many of the other nursing homes in Medina received similar scores. You could certainly do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this nursing home didn't have any weak links in any of the four major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This facility received an above average long-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.9052 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home was given an acceptable short-term care rating. Although this isn't as elite as several of its other category grades, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place was respectable in this metric with 48.1 percent of its residents returning home.