The Laurels of Chagrin Falls

Although this facility's overall score was rock bottom, it actually didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- for that area. There are a variety of factors within this area. Most of these criteria relate to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Lastly, although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic.

This nursing home also didn't grade out poorly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a B- in that category, which turned out to be among its more respectable scores. Our short-term care scores are likely most important for residents requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

This nursing home received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing them to receive a lowly F for inspections. An F in this category is generally a signal that we found some red flags on the facility's inspections. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This facility had 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home was given an abysmal grade in this category also. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Nursing homes that do not score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 88.88889 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.