Walnut Creek Nursing Center

With more than 25 options located in Dayton, Ohio, Walnut Creek Nursing Center is one of many options here. This facility received an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, this nursing home probably isn't a fit for any prospective resident. We were surprisingly able to give this nursing home some positive feedback for our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.

Although this place's overall score was terrible, it performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a bunch of severe deficiencies flagged. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that area. Unfortunately, this proved to be its second best grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. As you might expect, we discovered that this place provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. It fared better in this area, with 52.2 percent of its residents returning home.

The third category we graded was long-term care. This facility's was given an abysmal long-term care score where it was given an F. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 81.355934 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than average. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.8 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility did not fare as well as the average nursing home.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is a very poor grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home averaged a meager 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.