Lebanon Care Center

We were not high on this facility's overall grade or its category grades. We gave it a grade of just D for inspections and that proved to be its best score. Inspection ratings factor in many items on the facility's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a D for its long-term care rating, which is well below average in this category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 95.05495 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at is short-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With a grade in this range for this area, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home was well below average in two of the key staffing areas we assess. In fact, it provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.