Lebanon Center

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few places performed this well in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our next category, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we graded is nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of B-. This was this facility's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.