Generations at Loln

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we rated is long-term care. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in this category. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 50.396828 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.