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The Willows at Tiffin

Nursing Home
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Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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410 Fair Lane,
Tiffin OH 44883

(419) 580-1128

92.83% estimated occupancy ¹

Located in Tiffin, Ohio, The Willows at Tiffin is one of four facilities in this area. This is an A rated facility. This nursing home was given one of the most impressive ratings that we offer. A grade in this range requires top-notch marks across the board. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we rated it ahead of the majority of the facilities in Tiffin, which boasts a decent selection of nursing homes. Scroll down to find this facility's category ratings, which are also quite good. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Palliative Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. We were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Very few facilities received a better grade in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is frequently a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

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Long-term Care Quality

Turning our next category, this nursing home was given a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.74419 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Nurse Quality

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home was awarded a strong nursing grade. We gave it a B+ in this category, completing one of our more favorable profiles. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning patients at least once a day.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

The Willows at Tiffin Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In The Willows at Tiffin, 0% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In The Willows at Tiffin, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents that have had a fall which caused major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In The Willows at Tiffin, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In The Willows at Tiffin, 13.2% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In The Willows at Tiffin, 10.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In The Willows at Tiffin, 12.75% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents who are showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In The Willows at Tiffin, 98.37% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In The Willows at Tiffin, 9.47% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In The Willows at Tiffin, 10.28% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In The Willows at Tiffin, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In The Willows at Tiffin, 10.28% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In The Willows at Tiffin, 8.94% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In The Willows at Tiffin, 86.2% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.