Legacy Health and Rehabilitation Center

Although this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform quite as poorly in long-term care. In fact, we gave it a B- for that area, which isn't bad. This was not enough to salvage its otherwise poor profile. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's amount of care. This includes a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.732025 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care ratings are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we looked at was inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. We gave it a D in this area. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be most cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This nursing home had a category J through K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently exceeding $50,000. This typically signifies that CMS inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of bad government inspections.