Landsun Unit of Lakeview Christian Home

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing score considers a host of factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home New Mexico 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 employing a system of moving patients more often.

This facility is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.42857 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a B+. This wrapped up an elite profile. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or higher in each of our categories. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.