Xenia Health and Rehab

To pair with its decent overall score, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

The second best category we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a B-. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are quite a few criteria within this area. Many of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The last category we rated is long-term care, which ended up being a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a D for our long-term care category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 75 percent of its residents. This is pretty significantly lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.