Lewisburg Center

Lewisburg Center is located in Ronceverte, West Virginia. The city has 4,575 people. With an overall grade of B, this facility is a very good option. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this place. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home truly excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. With our short-term care category, we strive to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 58.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. There are a host of subcategories included in this area. Many of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is far more care than what is offered by most nursing homes. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

Our final category is long-term care, where we gave this facility a grade of C in this category. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the very respectable level of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the facility's vaccination record. For example, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very respectable. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.