The Lakes of Sylvania

The Lakes of Sylvania is one of seven nursing homes in Sylvania, Ohio. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a decent score. Based on our ratings, this facility has some redeeming qualities. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its stellar inspection rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are vital for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 57.7 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Nursing scores are largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Moving on to the next area, we gave this facility a D for our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's worst category grade. Unfortunately, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.242424 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.