Loln Community Care Center

On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to emphasize the fact that this facility was awarded a superb score of A- in our long-term care area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.40476 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When computing our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving residents more often.

The last category we rated ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. Nevertheless, even its lowest point would actually be a strength for most facilities. In fact, we gave it a favorable grade of B for short-term care. Short-term care scores are vital for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned 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.