Quality Life Services - Grove City

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this nursing home's more favorable category scores was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 89.20863 percent of its patients. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is well below average in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Given its poor score in this area, we were not shocked to discover that this place offers substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home's least impressive category was nursing, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of factors, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.