Lexington Hlth Cr Ctr-Blmngdl

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility fared well in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A for that category, which turns out to be one of our most elite scores. Short-term care grades are often used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we rated was long-term care. We awarded this facility a solid score in this area, with a C. While this was not as favorable as several of its other scores, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility gave the vaccine to only 78.82353 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.