Maple Knoll Village

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its best category. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient at least once a day.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received a grade of B+. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our higher grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B+. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.66777 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable short-term care score. We gave it a B+ in this category, completing one of our more impressive report cards. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.