Siloam Healthcare

This facility's overall grade was propped up by a strong long-term care rating. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 83.548386 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home actually earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a B-. We were surprised this facility earned multiple category grades of this caliber. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's third most favorable category is short-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we graded is nursing, ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in this area. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. On top of its subpar nursing hours, this place also earned suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based measures we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this nursing home's patients sustained falls which led to serious injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this place receiving a poor nursing grade.