Mentor Ridge Health and Rehabilitation

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home's short-term care rating turns out to be one of its higher scores. The facility received a B- in this category. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

This facility's next best category was its long-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of C. In computing these long-term care grades, we analyze the facility's personal care services. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 95.29914 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we rated is nursing, proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. This really is one of just a couple of weak points in an otherwise strong report card. The nursing grade is based on a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.