Solheim Lutheran Home

Solheim Lutheran Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Los Angeles, California. With an overall rating of A-, this nursing home proved to be in a different league than many of the facilities in Los Angeles. Even in a city offering 79 other nursing homes, this facility is a great option. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its long-term care score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination data is first-rate also. In fact, this facility vaccinated 99.57447 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing grade is based on many datapoints. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular facility provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was among the more impressive totals we found. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility the nation in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. While this proved to be its worst category rating, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in this area with 50.9 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.