Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Lumberton, Mississippi. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires respectable scores in most areas. Based on our assessment, this facility is a good fit for most people. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
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Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a quality facility overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many facilities fared better in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in our long-term care category. Indeed, we gave it a score of A for that area, which happens to be one of our most elite scores. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. 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 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of C. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we graded was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's worst area. It received an F in this area, which is obviously somewhat concerning. The nursing score includes many subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. 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. Unfortunately, this facility also did not perform as well as we had hoped in some of the quality measures we assessed in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 15.74% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 5.56% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who experienced a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 3.59% of Patients had UTIs
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents who experienced a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 29.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for treating a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 20.22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 2.34% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents exhibiting signs of depression. High rates of depression could imply lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 98.21% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 24.43% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 21.98% of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 21.98% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Lamar Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 10.79% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Merit Health WesleyAcute Care Hospitals 15.7 miles away5001 W Hardy St Hattiesburg Mississippi 39402Voluntary non-profit - Private(601) 268-8000
- Pearl River County Hospital & Nursing HomeCritical Access Hospitals 18.41 miles away305 West Moody Street Poplarville Mississippi 39470Government - Local(601) 795-4543
Nearby Dialysis
- Hattiesburg Clinic Dialysis15.59 miles away5909 Hwy 49 Suite 10 Hattiesburg Mississippi 39402CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 60 (601) 296-2960
- Hattiesburg Clinic Pa17.4 miles away6855 Lincoln Road Ext Suite 60 Hattiesburg Mississippi 39402Dialysis Stations: 14 (601) 261-3024