Cedars of Lebanon Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this facility. Without complete information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being difficult to assess it in the inspections category.

Building on its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home an B for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 68.181816 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we rated is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In computing these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.