Lawrence Hall Health & Rehabilitation

This nursing home's best category grade came in the category of health inspections. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, we were not able to find deficiency data for this facility. Without having the deficiency related data for this nursing home, it is difficult to evaluate it in the inspections category.

One of this nursing home's higher category grades came in the category of long-term care. This proved to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. With our long-term care rating, we look at the sheer quantity of care provided by a facility, as well as some quality measures. We would have to do a little more digging into this nursing home before expressing a stronger opinion on this category as it looks like we are missing a few datapoints in this category.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. There are several datapoints within this area. Many of the subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a C for this category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.