Lewisburg Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility was given its third most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this area, which is a respectable grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Moving on to our next category, this facility was given a C for long-term care, which is a decent score. In computing our long-term care grades, we look at the assistance with daily living offered to a nursing home's residents. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.