Ohio Living Cape May

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also was superb in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Very few facilities fared better in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We assessed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C. Even though this turned out to be its poorest category rating, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 91.52542 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.