Levering Regional Health Care Center

This facilities grades were terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to draw your attention to its poor long-term care grade where it received an F. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.39759 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this area. In calculating these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. As you might expect, we learned that this place offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For facilities with poor inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The next category we scored is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. The nursing score analyzes a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place was above average in two of the major statistics we considered, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.