Adams Lane Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our short-term care rating. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on quality of care. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is quite a bit below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Sadly, this facility's third highest category was long-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 95.25223 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. This is the most heavily weighted category in our overall grading system. When a place has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular facility was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had potential to create actual harm to patients. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.