Lofland Park Center is a senior living facility located in Seaford, Delaware. The city has a total of 23,838 people. With an A overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top ten percent of all facilities in the nation. At the end of the day, this nursing home looks like a no brainer for most people. If you look below, you can see this place's category ratings, which are equally impressive as its overall grade.
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Lofland Park Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing grade weighs a handful of factors, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
Compounding its fine assessment, this facility also was given a dominant short-term care score, with a score of A-. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the final area, this nursing home also excelled in the long-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- for this area. This finalized a straight A report card. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.24561 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lofland Park Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Lofland Park Center, 3.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Lofland Park Center, 2.34% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Lofland Park Center, 3.48% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Lofland Park Center, 6.03% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Lofland Park Center, 17.03% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Lofland Park Center, 8.87% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Lofland Park Center, 98.84% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Lofland Park Center, 15.91% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Lofland Park Center, 26.95% of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Lofland Park Center, 0.48 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Lofland Park Center, 26.95% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Lofland Park Center, 12.34% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Lofland Park Center, 73.14% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Nanticoke Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.12 miles away801 Middleford Rd Seaford Delaware 19973Voluntary non-profit - Private(302) 629-6611
- Peninsula Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.53 miles away100 East Carroll Avenue Salisbury Maryland 21801Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 543-7111
Nearby Dialysis
- Dsi Seaford0.27 miles away600 Health Services Drive Seaford Delaware 19973CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (302) 262-0852
- Dsi Laurel Dialysis, LLC6.76 miles awayLaurel Square Shopping Center 30214 Sussex Highway, Unit #4 Laurel Delaware 19956Dialysis Stations: 16 (302) 715-3060
- Fresenius Medical Care Southern Delaware, LLC6.91 miles away9115 Antique Alley Bridgeville Delaware 19933Dialysis Stations: 11 (302) 337-8789
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Mid Sussex County11.63 miles away34 Georgetown Plaza Georgetown Delaware 19947CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (302) 854-0230
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Millsboro17.2 miles away30164 Commerce Drive Millsboro Delaware 19966Dialysis Stations: 12 (302) 934-6342
- Deers Head Center18.08 miles away351 Deers Head Hospital Road Salisbury Maryland 21801Dialysis Stations: 26 (410) 543-4085
- Fmc - North Salisbury19.1 miles away1314 Belmont Ave Ste 304 Salisbury Maryland 21804CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (410) 860-6650
- Salisbury Dialysis Center, LLC19.33 miles away601 East Main Street Suite 200 Salisbury Maryland 21804Dialysis Stations: 13 (410) 543-5340