Otterbein Springboro

This nursing home earned a favorable short-term care rating this year. We gave them a strong grade in that area, with a B+. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is typically a fair assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. It does not appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home's second best category is inspections. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was given its third most favorable category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled therapy and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 96.350365 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed is nursing, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of nursing. We analyzed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is quite a bit below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.