Curis at Lynchburg Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
2081 Langhorne Road, Lynchburg VA 24501 · (434) 846-8437 · 80.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Curis at Lynchburg Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is one of eight facilities located in Lynchburg, Virginia. This nursing home received an overall grade of F. This place does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. We were surprisingly able to give this nursing home some positive feedback for our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a fairly impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our more favorable grades in that category with a B+. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care score and that actually turned out to be its next most respectable score. Our short-term care grade is generally used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Based on its abysmal grade in this category, we were not shocked to learn that this nursing home offers significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 40.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This particular facility provided a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is far below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we rated was long-term care, where this facility received a rock bottom score in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 83.55091 percent of its residents. This is many points below the national average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.72 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't bad due to it having some more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Curis at Lynchburg Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who have had a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More frequent bathing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better