Maria Joseph Living Care Center

Maria Joseph Living Care Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Dayton, Ohio. Sporting an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Dayton, which admittedly is admittedly a bit below average nationally. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. This is a much better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was given a positive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B in that category, which is one of our more favorable scores. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 83.3004 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we expected. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.87 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is close to average in this area.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. There are a variety of datapoints included in this area. Many of the datapoints relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility was above average in several of the major metrics we focus on, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These datapoints are typically good measures of the quality of nursing care available.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength either for this place. We found that just 46.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.