National Church Residences Chillicothe

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home performed well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our highest grades. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in this category. In our long-term care grade, we weigh the sheer quantity of care offered by a nursing home, along with some quality datapoints. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we scored is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a C in that area. Our nursing rating weighs several factors, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused statistics. We look at the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.