Astoria Place of Silverton

Astoria Place of Silverton is an average-sized nursing home located in Cincinnati, Ohio. With a bottom of the barrel overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. Fortunately, if you aren't impressed with this facility, there are countless other options available in this city. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This tells you that it avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

This facility really excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an C. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This place averages just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

We were also stunned to discover that this nursing home earned a somewhat respectable long-term care grade this year. We awarded it a C in that category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 98.666664 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we looked at was short-term care, where this facility was given a rock bottom score here as well. It received an F for this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. Our short-term care grade is generally used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.