Center at Loln

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home earned an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an A in that area. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing scores are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 place the country 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 a patient at least once a day.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Moving on to the final area, this facility was given a respectable long-term care rating. Even though this was not nearly as strong as a few of its other grades, this is still not a terrible score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.