Rockynol Retirement Community

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This place excelled at the highest level in two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it provided about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than a typical nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 64.5 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some 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 the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place provides an incredible 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a strong nursing rating in our assessment, with a B. Even though this wasn't as dominant as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our stronger scores for that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.75777 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.