The Merriman of Akron

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means that it dodged the more significant classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Unfortunately, this facility's next most favorable category was short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Our short-term care scores are critical for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home did not fare very well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 71.666664 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.