Laconia Nursing Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 92.79176 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we graded is short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of C in this area. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we considered 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 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The final area we assessed was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a D for our nursing category, making this the nursing home's weakest category grade. The nursing grade assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in two of the major statistics we focus on, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.