Cedars of Lebanon Care Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. We were not able to track down deficiency data for this facility. Without the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it is difficult to fully grade the place in terms of this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an B. The nursing score is based on several factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents more often.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of services provided by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 85.05747 percent of its patients. This is many points lower than what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to our final area, this facility was awarded a respectable short-term care score of C. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.