Liberty Pointe Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave it a superb long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave this nursing home a score of A-. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.79167 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we looked at was short-term care. In this category, where we gave this facility an F, which is about as bad as it gets. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The final category we rated is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This place provided only 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.