Abramson Senior Care at Lankenau Medical Center

In addition to being an elite nursing home overall, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes performed this well in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Although this facility had a few 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 graded this facility so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care grade. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. In our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also was strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few nursing homes fared better in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. It does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the final area, this facility was given an extremely favorable nursing rating. We awarded it a grade of A- in this category, rounding out a straight A profile. There are a number of factors included in this grade. Many of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.