Cambridge Place is a nursing home in Lexington, Kentucky which has a population of 296,965 people. We gave this facility a B overall, which is a quality grade. We were also impressed that Lexington received a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places to find a nursing home. Even in a city featuring 14 nursing homes, this nursing home looks like a sound choice. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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Cambridge Place
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a quality facility overall, this nursing home especially excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider 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.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that area, which is one of our most impressive scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 94.38944 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next highest area ended up being its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. In computing these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the final category we scored. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a D. There are a host of subcategories within this area. Most of the data points relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cambridge Place Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cambridge Place, 3.95% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cambridge Place, 2.31% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a fall which caused severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cambridge Place, 3.48% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients which have sustained urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cambridge Place, 20.94% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cambridge Place, 19.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cambridge Place, 10.32% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cambridge Place, 95.25% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cambridge Place, 15.85% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some experts believe this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cambridge Place, 14.39% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Cambridge Place, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to preserving the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cambridge Place, 14.39% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cambridge Place, 9.19% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cambridge Place, 71.62% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Lexington, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Dialysis
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