Silex Community Care

This facilities grades were terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to draw your attention to its poor short-term care grade where it received an F. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Based on its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

We also wanted to point out this facility's inspection score where it received an F. This typically means we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home's was given a rock-bottom long-term care score where it received an F. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to only 87.07865 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The next category we assessed was nursing. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in this category. The nursing score is based on numerous data points. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had bad scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.