Solon Nursing Care Center

We want to point out that this facility's short-term care grade outpaced its overall score. This nursing home received a B+ in this category, which is a strong grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be a real strength for this facility. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 62.3 percent of its patients returning home. This is a far better rate than most facilities.

This facility actually received a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a B-. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. The nursing grade analyzes several datapoints, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused statistics. We like to look at the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these issues.

This facility's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. Sadly, it received an F in this category. In spite of a few solid grades in other areas, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to make sure you are aware. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 82.47863 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.61 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.