Otterbein St Marys Retirement Community
11230 State Route 364, Saint Marys OH 45885 · (419) 394-6330 · 84.9% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Otterbein St Marys Retirement Community is a small non-profit facility in Saint Marys, Ohio. With an overall rating of B, this is a fine nursing home. This place definitely has plenty working in its favor. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile was its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 53 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for this area, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data for this facility, it is a challenge to fully evaluate the place in terms of this category.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our higher scores. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is typically a fair measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 58.5 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant portion were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. This is one of the more impressive totals of nursing hours we found at any nursing home in the Saint Marys area. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This place was relatively weak in two of the areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated was long-term care, ended up being this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. This really is one of just a few dings in an otherwise impressive report card. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of providing respectable levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. These marks were notably more respectable than a few of its other data points in the category. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Otterbein St Marys Retirement Community Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better