Law Den Nursing Home

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility also was awarded a strong score in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home didn't fare well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's worst area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 78.81356 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.24 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also a cause for concern.