Lawrence Memorial Hospital Center for Rehabilitation

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 7.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a high-end score of A in our long-term care category. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to this facility's impressive profile, we gave this facility a score of A- for our inspections rating. With this grade, the facility completes its straight A report card. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.