The Laurels of Massillon

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. Short-term care grades are crucial for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility was awarded its third highest category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is an acceptable grade. In computing our long-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.90323 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth category, we awarded this nursing home a D in nursing. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. There are a host of criteria within this category. Many of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.