Jefferson Healthcare Center

Jefferson Healthcare Center sits at 222 East Beech Street in Jefferson, Ohio, and serves as a for-profit skilled nursing and rehabilitation center, certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, with 116 certified beds and about 114 residents, so it's nearly always full up. The place is managed by Foundations Health Solutions, LLC, with ownership under Foundations Health LLC and Colleran Family Trust, and Tishia Pratt is the administrator there. Residents can get care for both short-term rehab and long stays, and for those needing extra help recovering or living with chronic illness, there's onsite physical, occupational, and speech therapies, plus a Center for Dialysis. The facility cares for people dealing with conditions like depression, anxiety, or urinary tract infections and runs programs that try to help seniors stay independent and improve their quality of life, including Alzheimer's care, end-of-life care, and respite care. Staff keep watch for worsening mobility, and the percentage of long-term residents losing movement is low at 4%, while pressure sore prevention is always ongoing, with 4% of high-risk long-term and 20% of short-term residents reported as having pressure sores, which is something they keep working on. Flu and pneumococcal vaccines are usually offered to most residents-around 93% got flu shots and over 80% had vaccine assessments done, so infection control is a focus, though there was one infection-related deficiency found at the last inspection, and overall, the place had 6 deficiencies, which means inspectors did find some areas needing attention. The nurse turnover rate is lower than the state average, which can help with continuity of care, and there's about 3.36 nurse hours per person per day, which is a bit less than the state average but still enough to have nurses present around the clock. Residents and their families can voice their needs through resident and family councils, and the facility has psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and internal medicine doctors available. There aren't any unnecessary physical restraints used, and the building is fully sprinklered for fire safety. There's no hospital on site, and Jefferson Healthcare Center isn't a continuing care retirement community or a Special Focus Facility, but it does provide hospice care, respite care, skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, secured dementia care, and programs designed to help folks get back their abilities and, when possible, head back home. The place has both independent and assisted living options, nursing home placement, and senior health services at Homestead II, along with state-of-the-art wound care and around-the-clock skilled nurses. The facility stays busy, usually averaging 80 residents on most days, and the staff try to live up to a commitment to quality nursing and dedicated support. The building's got solid survey history, with staff members who tend to stay a while, sometimes making it easier for residents to get to know who's taking care of them.