Shaker Gardens Nursing & Rehab Center

Shaker Gardens Nursing & Rehab Center is a small facility located in Beachwood, Ohio. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires quality marks in most areas. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of earning a great overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. The nursing score assesses several factors, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very impressive statistic which typically corresponds with higher quality care. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility Ohio when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided.

This nursing home's next highest area is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this area with 48.9 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we scored is long-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this category. In our long-term care score, we assess the volume of services offered by a facility, along with a few qualitative metrics. On top of offering favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.630135 percent of its residents. This figure is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.