St Catherine's Manor of Findlay

St Catherine's Manor of Findlay is an average-sized nursing home located in Findlay, Ohio. With an overall grade of B-, this appears to be a solid nursing home. This place has some things going for it. We were also pleased to find that this place received consistently decent grades in all of the major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. 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.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.50249 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. The nursing score consists of several subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. This facility was given a grade of C in the category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 41.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.