Liberty Commons Nsg & Reh Rowa

In addition to having a decent overall rating, we also want to point out that this place received favorable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B+. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Additionally, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded impressive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best grade. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.71245 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, where this facility received a B- in this area. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

This facility's least impressive category is nursing, which is the last area we scored. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area. Even with several solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless disappointing so we wanted to draw your attention to it. Our nursing grade is based on several data points, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.