Lake Manassas Health & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are with residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Virginia in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents more frequently.

In the last category we analyzed, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the facility rounded out a very strong profile. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 88 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.