Liberty Retirement Community of Lima
2440 Baton Rouge Avenue, Lima OH 45805 · (419) 331-2273 · 47.36% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Liberty Retirement Community of Lima is a nursing home in Lima, Ohio, which has 86,954 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of F. Based on our assessment, you'd be better off to steer clear of this place. We were surprisingly able to give this nursing home some positive feedback for our inspections category, which you can read more about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 95 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a poor overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections category. This was the result of the nursing home receiving a quality government inspection report this year. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. We do not think quantity of care was the reason for this places poor nursing rating. With 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this facility actually surpassed the national average. While it fared well in terms of nursing hours, this facility earned poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both metrics.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care. This facility's received an abysmal short-term care score where it was given an F. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 35.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was long-term care. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is a rock bottom grade. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. This nursing home's vaccination records lagged a bit behind some of the other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 70.588234 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.98 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't as bad since it had more complex patients. This is its best score in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Liberty Retirement Community of Lima Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better