Cedars The

Cedars The is a small government-owned facility in Leo, Indiana. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a good rating. Based on the data we reviewed, there are definitely far worse nursing homes out there. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its remarkable inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it a grade of A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also was awarded a positive short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. This place fared better than most facilities in this area with 54 percent of its patients returning home.

Switching gears to our final area, this facility did not perform well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is this facility's weakest area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.36306 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.