Western Reserve Masonic Comm

Western Reserve Masonic Comm is a small non-profit facility located in Medina, Ohio. It looks like this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we looked at. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. As a matter of fact, this is the number one rated nursing home in the city. We also gave this facility strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our short-term care grades are likely more important for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the overwhelming majority of nursing homes in this area with 65.9 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

This facility also performed well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31507 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.43 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a very strong nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that category, topping off one of our more favorable report cards. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.