Solaris Healthcare Windermere

Solaris Healthcare Windermere is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Orlando, Florida. It looks like this nursing home is among the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. A score in this range requires top-notch scores across the board. Orlando offers a host of nursing homes, however, it is unlikely you will need to look at too many others. This one looks like a first class option. One of the best aspects of this facility's stellar report card is its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its long-term care score. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered after this nursing home's above average nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.42197 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. The last datapoint we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.38 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

We also would like to point out the fact that this facility was awarded a first-rate score of A- in our short-term care area. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it performed better than most facilities in the nation in this area with 49.9 percent of its residents able to return home.

The last area we rated was nursing. In that area, we gave this nursing home a favorable grade of B. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This place provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is much more care than what is offered by most places. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.