With an address in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center is one of six available nursing homes in the area. Featuring an overall grade of B+, this facility proved to be a much better option than the average nursing home in Mount Vernon. Based on our analysis, you can do much worse than this facility. If you look further down this page, you can see this place's category ratings, which are also quite good.
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Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it earned an impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third area we graded is long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the category. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 87.93104 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we scored is short-term care, where this facility received a grade of B. This facility didn't turn out to have any real weaknesses. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 2% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are often the result of lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.45% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.96% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients which are administered antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 58% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Higher rates of depression may indicate lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 91.26% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.82% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.25% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.25% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center, 55.66% of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Mount Vernon, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Mount Vernon, Ohio has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Knox Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.36 miles away1330 Coshocton Road Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Voluntary non-profit - Other(740) 393-9000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Knox County Kidney Center0.94 miles away14 Wood Lake Trail Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Dialysis Stations: 14 (740) 393-1624
- Davita - Apple Valley1.47 miles away1485 Coshocton Road Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Dialysis Stations: 9 (740) 392-3436