Ontario Center

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that category. Unfortunately, this wound up being one of its best areas. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 94.025154 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. With a score this poor in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was below average in many staffing areas we assess. The facility offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.8 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The final category we scored is nursing, in which this nursing home received a poor score in this area as well. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had bad scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.