Piketon Nursing Center

Located in Piketon, Ohio, Piketon Nursing Center is one of just two available facilities in this area. Featuring an overall score of B-, this appears to be a solid facility. Based on our ratings, there are certainly much worse places out there. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an impressive grade in our long-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.333336 percent of its residents, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.89 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we assessed was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. It performed respectably in this area with 46.3 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we assessed was nursing, is this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this category. This really was one of just a couple of dings in an otherwise strong report card. Our nursing score is based on many components, but the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averaged a meager 3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.