O'neill Healthcare North Olmsted

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for that area, which is one of our best grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. With our long-term care rating, we analyze the volume of services offered by a nursing home, as well as a handful of quality metrics. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 82.19178 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we rated is short-term care. For that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.