Quaker Heights Nursing Home

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Another one of this nursing home's impressive category grades came in the category of short-term care. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is considered to be a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. This was this nursing home's weakest category. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. Long-term care scores are crucial for people needing non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.87234 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.