Edgewood Manor of Lucasville I

This nursing home fared well in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility also performed well in inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors 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.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we scored is nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is certainly a major disappointment. When computing our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. In addition to its below average nursing hours, this place earned suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this place's residents sustained falls which led to serious injury.