Saylor Lane Healthcare Center

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our more favorable scores. In determining these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility's next best area ended up being its long-term care score, where it was given a C. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for individuals needing more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 97.4359 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we assessed is nursing, which proved to be a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this facility a D for nursing. The nursing rating is based on many data points. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.