Silas Creek Rehabilitation Center

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially would like to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other accomplishments is its dominant long-term care score. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. Unfortunately, we awarded this facility a relatively low score in the category of short-term care, with a D. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place offers fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

The last area we looked at was nursing, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Sadly, this category pulled down the facility's overall grade to some degree. When determining our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. While this nursing home did not excel in the area of nursing hours, it surprised us in a few of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This facility was better than average in this statistic, which is one redeeming quality we found in this category.