Lexington Manor Senior Care

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. It does not appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility performed remarkably in our long-term care rating. We gave them an impressive score of A+ in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.630135 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few subcategories, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents more often.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility received a high-end short-term care grade. Although this isn't quite as strong as a few of its other grades, this is still one of the more favorable scores we offer. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who 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.