Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. With an overall score of C, this is likely a solid facility. You can certainly do worse than this place. One of the better aspects of this facility's report card is its strong inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Catheter Care
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Facility Inspections
The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A-. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home received high grades in the category of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an B-. Nursing scores are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
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Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a solid score in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of C. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we scored is long-term care, which was this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this facility a D in that category. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the vaccine to a relatively low 43.91892 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 16.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term residents which suffered falls which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 3.42% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 17.36% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 20.69% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 35.25% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 44.49% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 6.29% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 5.75% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 5.75% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 23.97% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Whispering Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 92.4% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Mount Vernon, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- 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
Looking for more options? Mount Vernon, Ohio has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Knox Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.45 miles away1330 Coshocton Road Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Voluntary non-profit - Other(740) 393-9000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Knox County Kidney Center1.52 miles away14 Wood Lake Trail Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Dialysis Stations: 14 (740) 393-1624
- Davita - Apple Valley1.53 miles away1485 Coshocton Road Mount Vernon Ohio 43050Dialysis Stations: 9 (740) 392-3436