Lincoln Nursing & Rehabilitation Community

We gave this nursing home one of our higher scores in the area of short-term care, where it earned a grade of A-. This is much better than its overall grade, which was certainly not elite. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is more often than not a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing rating features a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's inspection score was yet another category grade that was superior to the nursing home's overall grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. It received a lowly F in this area, which is clearly very concerning. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 73.83177 percent of its residents. This is quite a bit less than average. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.