Logan Elm Health Care Center is a nursing home in Circleville, Ohio. The city has 23,717 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of A-, resulting in it being the number one rated nursing home in Circleville. Based on our analysis, you can't go wrong here. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Logan Elm Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a strong facility overall, it also earned A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was superb in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the next category, this facility also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed ended up being this facility's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of B- for nursing. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Although this place didn't have as many nursing hours as many other nursing homes we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of preventing major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Logan Elm Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 1.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 3.03% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that suffered a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 1.03% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often the result of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 17.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 23.36% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 1.12% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 99.7% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 10.27% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 9.77% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 9.77% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 17.98% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Logan Elm Health Care Center, 70.76% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Circleville, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Circleville, Ohio has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Berger HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.09 miles away600 North Pickaway Street Circleville Ohio 43113Government - Local(740) 420-8020
- Adena Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12 miles away272 Hospital Road Chillicothe Ohio 45601Voluntary non-profit - Private(740) 779-7500
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Circleville Dialysis3.2 miles away790 North Court Street Circleville Ohio 43113Dialysis Stations: 12 (740) 477-7225
- Pickaway Dialysis Center3.81 miles away1180 North Court St. Circleville Ohio 43113Dialysis Stations: 12 (740) 477-2072
- Chillicothe Regional Dialysis Center13.72 miles away465 Shawnee Lane Chillicothe Ohio 45601CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (740) 774-4777
- Davita - Adena Dialysis14.48 miles away1180 N. Bridge Street Chillicothe Ohio 45601Dialysis Stations: 17 (740) 773-3733