Ottawa County Health Center Ltcu

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+. In calculating our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 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 typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- in this category. This finalized a straight A profile. Short-term care grades are vital for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.