Ontario Healthcare Center

Part of the reason this proved to be a decent nursing home is that it earned a very favorable nursing rating. In fact, its nursing score ended up being its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. In calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This is better than its overall grade. Inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility also was awarded a favorable score in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in that area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is often a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Our final category is long-term care, in which we gave this facility a grade of B- in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average figure. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.