Ossian Senior Hospice

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility also excelled in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A in this area. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

Turning our third area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care score. This is a superb score. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. 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 final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in this area, with a B. Although this is not as dominant as a few of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless an excellent score. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.21875 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.