Whester Terrace

While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a B in nursing. This grade is much more impressive than its overall score. In calculating our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident even once per day.

Surprisingly, this facility actually received a good score in inspections as well. We awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Not many facilities that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home did not perform well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.1982 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.