Franciscan Care Center Sylvania

Franciscan Care Center Sylvania is located in the large metropolitan area of Toledo, Ohio. Our rating system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. This turned out to be a bottom half nursing home in Toledo based on the data we assessed. In a city with many other facilities, you should be able to find an alternative. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better scores in that area with a B+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that have too many severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Despite this deficiency, this place still received a relatively favorable report.

We were also stunned to discover that this facility earned a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a B- in that area. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed well in this area with 65.1 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing rating includes several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. With only 2.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this measure. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home really didn't perform well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 79.42238 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than what we were hoping for. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also concerning.