Cedars of Lebanon Nursing Center

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded a dominant long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care is its second most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a score of A. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next most favorable area was short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is generally a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. It does not appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The last area we assessed is nursing. We gave this facility a decent grade in that category, with a C. Even though this isn't as strong as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Our nursing score includes many components, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.