Eamc Lanier Nursing Home

On top of receiving an elite overall rating, this facility also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in the category of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A for that category, which turns out to be one of our highest grades. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.30996 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. There are a number of factors within this area. Many of the factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.2 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Lastly, we factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This facility was relatively weak in two of the metrics we considered, with below average marks for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These datapoints are generally pretty good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a C. Although this turned out to be its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 49.9 percent of its residents returning home.