AHN Grove City

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many dominant grades, this facility was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a solid measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 7.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing score analyzes many subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the last category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. This rounded out an elite profile. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.