Adams Lane Care Center

Adams Lane Care Center is located in Zanesville, Ohio. This nursing home was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor grade. Unfortunately, this grade isn't too far off the city grade for Zanesville, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility's short-term care grade is one of its respectable scores. The facility was awarded a C in this category. Our short-term care grades are crucial for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents 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 the nation with 53.6 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

This nursing home wound up receiving a rock-bottom score in our long-term care area. It was given an F in this area. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable statistic. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This place offered a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.