Lancaster Rehabilitation Center

Lancaster Rehabilitation Center is a very-large nursing home located in Lincoln, Nebraska. With an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. Lincoln has quite a few nursing homes, but we doubt you will need to look at too many others. This one is a first class option. Scroll down to find this facility's category scores, which are also strong. It's hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for this area, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility truly excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It was above average in this area with 54.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, where we gave it an above average grade of B. This facility truly did not have any weak categories. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 91.14094 percent of its residents, which is somewhat less than we expected. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.66 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.