Select Specialty Hospital-Cleveland

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given an A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 7.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are many subcategories within this area. Most of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final area, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. This finished off a very favorable report card. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.