Ottawa Pavilion

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality facility is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave it a grade of A. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. When determining our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this statistic.

Moving on to our final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for our long-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category rating. Naturally, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 98.59813 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable datapoint. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.