O'neill Healthcare Bay Village

O'neill Healthcare Bay Village is a large facility located in Bay Village, Ohio. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a very respectable score. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. In our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech 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 looked at in this category, which was the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 58.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The third highest category we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our long-term care grades are more critical for folks needing more traditional assistance associated with personal care. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not too bad.

The final category we scored was nursing. We gave it a C in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. Our nursing rating is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, this place was relatively weak in two of the data points we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.