Premier Estates of Norwood Towers

Premier Estates of Norwood Towers is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, which offers more than 20 nursing homes. This is a relatively poor nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Keep in mind that Cincinnati received a city grade of B-, so should look at other options in the city as well. Lastly, this facility had an ownership change in the last year. Hopefully, new ownership is able to elevate its quality standards.

Although we were down on this facility overall, we awarded it a B for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, with an average of 4.1 hours per patient daily. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, this facility appears to be above average in several of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home offers.

Surprisingly, this facility actually earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. We gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Not many facilities that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facilities next most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this category. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. This facility's vaccination data lagged a bit behind a few of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 86.131386 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's weakest category was short-term care, which is the final area we scored. For this category, we gave this nursing home a D. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Based on its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home a bit in this metric as well, with just 45.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was below the national average.