Wexner Heritage House

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is generally an excellent sign. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this area with 67.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing score. We gave it an B+ in that area. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an extremely impressive 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is among the better totals in the state. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility earned a B for its inspections grade. This is an above average grade in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

The last area we rated is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of providing above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.79518 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.