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Life Care Center of Farmington

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Life Care Center of Farmington's website

1101 West Murray Drive,
Farmington NM 87401

(505) 326-1600

70.83% estimated occupancy ¹

Life Care Center of Farmington is a nursing home in Farmington, New Mexico. The city has a population of 57,780 people. This is a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. In fact, we found this facility to be better than the majority of the nursing homes in Farmington, which has a city grade of B. As you will see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Individual
Secure Memory Care
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Awards

Best Nursing Home in New Mexico Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in New Mexico Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in New Mexico Awards 2021

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Nurse Quality

Part of the reason this nursing home performed well overall is that it excelled in the area of nursing, with a B+ in that category. The nursing grade consists of many components, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

In addition, this facility also earned top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

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Short-term Care Quality

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. Short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Long-term Care Quality

The next category we rated was long-term care, in which this facility received a B. This nursing home did not turn out to have any weak areas. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 84.63768 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we expected but still a respectable figure. 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 only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Life Care Center of Farmington Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who have experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 0.9% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 22.29% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 7.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 0% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 83.5% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 15.29% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 9.29% of Residents

This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 9.29% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 16.87% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Life Care Center of Farmington, 56.52% of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.

Scores for Farmington, NM

Overall Rating has a grade of B
Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

Looking for more options? Farmington, New Mexico has 3 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

San Juan Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.47 miles away801 West Maple Street Farmington New Mexico 87401Voluntary non-profit - Private(505) 609-2000

Nearby Dialysis

Four Corners Dialysis Farmington (Dva)0.3 miles away801 W Broadway Farmington New Mexico 87401CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (505) 325-2828