Lighthouse Nursing Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating, where it earned an impressive grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our short-term care scores are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent inspections. We awarded it an B+ for that category, which is one of our highest grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 67.80105 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final area we graded was this facility's worst area. However, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of B- for nursing. There are a variety of subcategories included in this category. Most of these criteria relate to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This nursing home was relatively weak in a few of the major metrics we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.