The Pavilion at Kenton

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. We looked at the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this category. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a poor score. This is certainly a significant concern. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 2.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.