Landmark Medical Center

Even though we weren't complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it earned an impressive long-term care score this year. We gave it a B+ in this area. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 80.69705 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also awarded this facility a grade of C for our nursing rating. Nursing ratings are mostly tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

This facility received slightly below average government inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of C in this area. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This means it avoided the more ominous classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

The final area we rated is short-term care, which was this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Our short-term care scores are critical for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.