Ohio Living Park Vista

Ohio Living Park Vista is just one of 21 possibilities in Youngstown, Ohio. Sporting an overall score of A-, we graded this facility as one of the five highest graded facilities in the city. An overall grade in this range is a great indicator of a first-rate nursing home. We really can't say enough good things about this place. If you look further down this page, you will see this place's category scores, which are also quite good.

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. This facility performed much better in the final datapoint we assessed in this category, which was the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this area with 59.9 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing score consists of a handful of subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides a very impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the better totals in the nation. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it fared as well as any nursing home the country in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these datapoints as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided.

The last category we rated is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility an impressive grade of B. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.350365 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. The last datapoint we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 3.87 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.