Pickaway Manor Care Center

To pair with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having all of the deficiency related data, it was challenging to grade it in terms of this category.

This nursing home also was given a favorable score in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care, where this facility was given a C in this area. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.15385 percent of its residents, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we assessed was nursing. We gave it a C in that area. This is a fair grade in this area. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient even once per day.