Leonardville Nursing Home

On top of being a quality facility overall, this nursing home especially excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Few facilities fared better in this category. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having access to deficiency related data for this facility, it was difficult to fully grade the place in the inspections category.

Another one of this nursing home's quality category grades came in the category of short-term care. We gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our final area, this facility was given a very strong nursing grade. This facility didn't end up having any weak areas. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.