Concordia at Sumner

Concordia at Sumner is in Akron, Ohio, which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this is without a doubt a high quality nursing home. Indeed, we were so impressed with this facility that we rated it substantially ahead of most of the nursing homes in Akron. As you can see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

On top of being a great facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its first-rate achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care grade. In determining these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in this area with 71 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This facility also excelled in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Very few nursing homes fared better in this area. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the very impressive nursing hours provided by this facility, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.13793 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we assessed was nursing, where this facility received a B. Although this turned out to be its worst category rating, this is nevertheless a quality grade. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. With 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls which lead to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in Ohio.