Wellspring Retirement Center is a small nursing home located in Cincinnati, Ohio. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a decent grade. Despite Cincinnati featuring 72 other nursing homes to select from, this facility should be a fine choice. This facility was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Wellspring Retirement Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Wound Care
- Tracheotomy Care
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This facility excelled in our short-term care category, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. This really boosted its overall score. In forming our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
This facility's inspection rating exceeded its overall grade as well. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. This is a notably better score than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
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Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing grade weighs several factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this area.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we scored is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of C in this category. Long-term care ratings are based on a facility's volume of nursing services. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Wellspring Retirement Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 5.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 4.2% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing care can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 2.8% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 17.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 18.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients which were given antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 45.8% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 96.88% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 21.37% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 19.87% of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 19.87% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 9.38% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Wellspring Retirement Center, 73.49% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Cincinnati, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterChildrens 5.19 miles away3333 Burnet Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45229Voluntary non-profit - Private(513) 636-3333
- Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.5 miles away375 Dixmyth Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45220Voluntary non-profit - Church(513) 862-2646
- University of Cincinnati Medical Center, LLCAcute Care Hospitals 5.5 miles away234 Goodman Street Cincinnati Ohio 45219Voluntary non-profit - Private(513) 584-1000
- Mercy Health - West HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.21 miles away3300 Mercy Health Blvd Cincinnati Ohio 45211Voluntary non-profit - Private(513) 215-5000
- Christ HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.62 miles away2139 Auburn Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45219Voluntary non-profit - Private(513) 585-2000
- Mercy Health - Fairfield HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.82 miles away3000 Mack Road Fairfield Ohio 45014Voluntary non-profit - Private(513) 870-7197
- Assurance Health Cincinnati LLCPsychiatric 7.94 miles away11690 Grooms Road Cincinnati Ohio 45242Proprietary(513) 519-4947
- Bethesda NorthAcute Care Hospitals 8.14 miles away10500 Montgomery Road Cincinnati Ohio 45242Voluntary non-profit - Church(513) 865-1241
Nearby Dialysis
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