Kingston Care Center of Sylvania is a nursing home located in Sylvania, Ohio, which has a population of 32,226 people. This turns out to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. This is one of the three best nursing homes in the city. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.
Kingston Care Center of Sylvania
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Aquatic Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall performance, we gave this nursing home an A for the area of inspections. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B+. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is long-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.57627 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
The last area we analyzed is nursing. We gave this nursing home a solid grade in that area, with a B-. Although this isn't on par with a few of this nursing home's other scores, it is still not the end of the world. There are a host of criteria included in this grade. Many of the data points relate to staffing levels. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kingston Care Center of Sylvania Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who have suffered falls which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that have suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 20.26% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some believe this is a measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 90.12% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 1.36 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 12 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Kingston Care Center of Sylvania, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Sylvania, OH
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Sylvania, Ohio has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mercy St Anne HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.04 miles away3404 Sylvania Avenue Toledo Ohio 43623Voluntary non-profit - Church(419) 407-2663
- Toledo Hospital TheAcute Care Hospitals 6.72 miles away2142 North Cove Boulevard Toledo Ohio 43606Voluntary non-profit - Private(419) 291-7463
- University of Toledo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.29 miles away3000 Arlington Avenue Toledo Ohio 43699Government - State(419) 383-4848
- Northwest Ohio Psychiatric HospitalPsychiatric 7.98 miles away930 South Detroit Avenue Toledo Ohio 43614Government - State(419) 381-1881
- St Luke's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.35 miles away5901 Monclova Road Maumee Ohio 43537Voluntary non-profit - Other(419) 893-5900
- Mercy Health St Vincent Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.44 miles away2213 Cherry Street Toledo Ohio 43608Voluntary non-profit - Church(419) 251-3232
- Bay Park Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.49 miles away2801 Bay Park Drive Oregon Ohio 43616Voluntary non-profit - Other(419) 690-7700
Nearby Dialysis
- Dialysis Centers of Greater Toledo1.3 miles away7635 W. Sylvania Avenue Sylvania Ohio 43560Dialysis Stations: 15 (419) 517-2002
- Davita - Flower Dialysis2.06 miles away5308 Harroun Rd., Suite 60 Sylvania Ohio 43560Dialysis Stations: 12 (419) 824-6074
- Dialysis Center of Northwest Ohio, Ltd.3.37 miles away2249 North Reynolds Road Toledo Ohio 43615CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (419) 535-7415
- Us Renal Care Northwest Ohio Dialysis4.48 miles away3829 Woodley Road Suite C-12 Toledo Ohio 43606Dialysis Stations: 15 (419) 473-9900
- Fresenius Kidney Care Westgate4.79 miles away3546 West Sylvania Avenue Toledo Ohio 43623Dialysis Stations: 13 (419) 474-3379
- Fmc - Toledo Central Dialysis5.41 miles away3100 West Central Avenue, Suite 100 Toledo Ohio 43606CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (419) 539-4000
- Davita - West Toledo5.58 miles away2900 Carrskadon Avenue Toledo Ohio 43606Dialysis Stations: 17 (419) 531-0755
- Davita - Swan Creek Dialysis5.9 miles away5201 Airport Highway Toledo Ohio 43615Dialysis Stations: 20 (419) 214-0540