Tiffin Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is often a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This grade is based on the nursing home's inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In our last category, this facility also was given a first-rate long-term care score, with a grade of A. This wrapped up a rare straight A profile. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.