Lima Convalescent Home

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. The nursing score weighs many subcategories, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

This nursing home's next best area turned out to be its long-term care score, where it received a B-. In computing our long-term care scores, we quantify the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.92531 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we graded was short-term care. This nursing home was given a grade of C for this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.