The Lane House

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this area with a grade of A. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility was awarded its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this area, which is a respectable score. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In calculating our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients at least once a day.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care, which ended up being a low point for this nursing home. We gave this facility a grade of D for our long-term care category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 91.55844 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.