Premier Estates of Toledo

To pair with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The next highest area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for residents needing more traditional services related to personal care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average figure. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we scored is short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is more often than not a reliable assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its poor score in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this facility offers significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.