O'neill Healthcare North Olmsted

In addition to being a top notch facility overall, it also performed well in inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. The nursing grade is based on many factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 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 nursing home 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B+. This rounded out a very favorable profile. Only a select few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in every category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.10145 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.