Menorah Park Center for Senior
27100 Cedar Rd, Beachwood OH 44122 · (216) 831-6500 · 96.47% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Menorah Park Center for Senior is a nursing home in Beachwood, Ohio, which has 34,057 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of A+. In fact, this is the highest graded facility in the city. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this facility. If you look below, you can see this place's category ratings, which look to be equally strong as its overall rating.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 355 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. This facility is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. The facility offered approximately 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this area with 80 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility was given dominant marks in the area of long-term care. For this reason, it was given one of our best scores in that area with a score of A+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. 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 nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.506676 percent of its residents, which is far higher than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
In the last category we graded, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Approximately one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. These are both impressive figures, which typically leads to quality care. Finally, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Menorah Park Center for Senior Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better