Loln County Nursing & Rehab

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical 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 deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that this facility dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Another concern was the F this nursing home was given in the category of short-term care. Short-term care scores are vital for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.1 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

Turning to our final category, this facility did not fare very well in this area either. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 90.72581 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.