Ladysmith Nursing Home

To pair with its great overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to note the fact that this facility was given an impressive score of A in our long-term care category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 87.96296 percent of its residents. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Building on its fine profile, this nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score, with a score of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In our final area, we gave this facility an A for its nursing score. This finished off an elite profile. Nursing grades are largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.