Solaris Healthcare Imperial

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional reason we rated this facility so favorably is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as dominant as it gets in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.190285 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning our third category, we gave this facility a score of A for its short-term care score. This is a first-rate rating. Short-term care grades are crucial for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In the last category we assessed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility finished off an elite report card. The nursing category consists of quite a few data points, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.