Menorah Park Center for Senior

In addition to earning a great overall score, this facility received an A+ in our short-term care rating. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a fair assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's about 50% higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This place performed as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this metric with 79.6 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a score of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of very favorable nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination data is superb as well. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 99.267784 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.71 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this category, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home was given an extremely favorable nursing score. Even though this isn't as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is still one of the stronger scores we offer. Nursing ratings are tied to nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.