Sanctuary Medina

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area.

This facility's second lowest category was short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.

Switching gears to the last category, we awarded this facility a D for our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category score. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 91.2 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.