Levy-Kime Geriatric Community Clinic

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in nursing, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents even once per day.

This nursing home also was superb in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes performed better in this category. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Finally, we also awarded this facility a grade of B for our inspections category. This nursing home didn't have any real weaknesses. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.