Otterbein Union Township

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility also fared well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which is one of our most impressive grades. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category score in the area of long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.87234 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we rated was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in this area. Of course, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This number is far below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.