Medina Nursing Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without deficiency data for this facility, it is challenging to really evaluate the place in terms of this category.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade, with a B+ in the area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of B. Although this wasn't as high as some of this nursing home's other scores, it is still a fine score. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.