Solivita of Oak Pavilion

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This nursing home received a B in this category, which is one of our better scores. Our short-term care scores are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We wanted to note that this nursing home received an F for its inspection score. An F in this area is particularly troublesome because it typically points to red flags on the nursing home's inspections. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we want to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically signifies that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The next category we scored is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is obviously a major concern. Facilities that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 70.24793 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.