Laurels of Dekalb

Laurels of Dekalb is in Butler, Indiana. The city has 5,058 people. This is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. This facility definitely has plenty going for it. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to earning a great overall score, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of A+ for this category, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.35691 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. There are several datapoints within this category. Many of these criteria reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these datapoints. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home received a decent short-term care grade of B-. With our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 47 percent of its residents returning home.