Lawson Manor & Rehab

To go along with its strong overall score, this facility earned a grade of B+ for long-term care. This is an above average grade in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.05882 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it an B for that category. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that 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. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home received a respectable short-term care score of B-. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.