Cedars of Lebanon Care Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without complete deficiency related data for this facility, it is difficult to evaluate it in this area.

This nursing home's second best category was long-term care. We gave it a B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's personal care services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to just 77.14285 percent of its residents, which is a bit of a concern. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. The nursing rating includes a handful of datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this subcategory. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning residents more often.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, which is a weak spot for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of D for our short-term care category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.