Siena Gardens Rehabilitation & Transitional Care
1055 State Route 125, Cincinnati OH 45245 · (513) 449-3900 · 60.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Siena Gardens Rehabilitation & Transitional Care is one of 74 nursing homes located in Cincinnati, Ohio. This city has quite a few more facilities than most cities in Ohio. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our ratings, there are certainly much worse facilities out there. This place was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an B. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Nursing scores are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides high levels of nursing care, with an average of 3.9 hours per patient each day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's better category grades came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our final area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care score of C. Our long-term care scores are based in part on a facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of providing favorable levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.3125 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.4 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Siena Gardens Rehabilitation & Transitional Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better