Shady Lawn Nursing Home
15028 Old Lincolnway East, Dalton OH 44618 · (330) 828-2278 · 79.08% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Shady Lawn Nursing Home is located in Dalton, Ohio. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack score. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. This facility didn't meet our expectations in every category we looked at, but it did not receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories is available below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best area is long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a C. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 88.55219 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. In crafting these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. In this place's case, we found that it provides fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that it performed better in this area, with 49.8 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The final area we graded was nursing, which turned out to be a low point for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a D for our nursing category. The nursing rating consists of a handful of components, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility offered only 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this facility received suboptimal marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's residents suffered falls which led to serious injury.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Shady Lawn Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of long-term patients which have sustained a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better