Laurel Hill Nursing Center

Laurel Hill Nursing Center is located in Grants Pass, Oregon. This nursing home was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor grade. Unfortunately, this grade isn't too far off the city grade for Grants Pass, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to note its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable score of B- in this category. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B-. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this area. According to its CMS reports, this facility provided an average of 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was above the national average. Finally, our nursing score also includes some applicable quality-based metrics. While this facility excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in some of the datapoints that related to quality. This nursing home's nursing rating was hurt by its weak performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. We found that 15 percent of this nursing home's patients were suffering from pressure ulcers. Since some pressure ulcers can be avoided with good nursing protocols, we reduce a nursing home's nursing rating when we find this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the road grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This category is frequently a solid measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This place also performed well in this area with 57.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

Switching gears to the last category, we gave this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category score. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.73418 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.