The Meadows of Delphos is located in Delphos, Ohio. Featuring an overall rating of B, this looks like a fine facility. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this nursing home. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.
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The Meadows of Delphos
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Adult Day Care
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall performance, we awarded this place a grade of A for the area of inspections. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having access to the information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it was challenging to assess the place in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Nurse Quality
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 grade is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients more frequently.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed was long-term care. For that category, we awarded this facility a C. In our long-term care rating, we look at the quantity of services offered by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative measures. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 90.90909 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Meadows of Delphos Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Meadows of Delphos, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percent of long-term patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Meadows of Delphos, 2.6% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have had falls resulting in major injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Meadows of Delphos, 0.68% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint can be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Meadows of Delphos, 12.69% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Meadows of Delphos, 21.62% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Meadows of Delphos, 14.89% of Patients
This is the percent of residents showing depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Meadows of Delphos, 93.65% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Meadows of Delphos, 18.75% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Meadows of Delphos, 18.85% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In The Meadows of Delphos, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Meadows of Delphos, 18.85% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Meadows of Delphos, 11.01% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Meadows of Delphos, 79.47% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
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