Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded it an elite long-term care score. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.65258 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the last category we assessed. We gave it an F for this category. Despite multiple solid scores in other categories, this score is still alarming so we would like to to point it out. Our short-term care grade is generally used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With a score of this caliber in this category, we weren't shocked to find that this place was well below average in many staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.