Continuing Healthcare of Mentor

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care score and that actually wound up as its next highest score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover this facility offers significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home's was given a poor long-term care score where it was given a lowly F. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 92.68293 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The next area we scored was nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is a poor grade. In determining our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.