St Francis Home
182 St Francis Ave, Tiffin OH 44883 · (419) 447-2723 · 88.71% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
St Francis Home is a facility located in Tiffin, Ohio, a city with 29,413 people. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the best grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the country. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 132 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.897194 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. This facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.64 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed 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. This facility performed much better in the final datapoint we assessed in this area, which was the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this metric with 56.5 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of the short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed is nursing, where this nursing home was given a grade of B-. While this is its least impressive category score, this is still a middle of the pack score. When determining our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these data points. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric. This is typically a reliable indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient even once per day.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Francis Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay residents which have sustained a fall which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
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 demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures 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 indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better