Loln Hills of New Albany
326 Country Club Drive, New Albany IN 47150 · (812) 948-1311 · 76.73% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in New Albany, Indiana, Loln Hills of New Albany is one of eight available nursing homes in the city. We gave this nursing home an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. New Albany received a city grade of B-, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually received one decent category grade in inspections, which you can read more about below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 156 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this place'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. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given an F for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are often employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Based on its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't shocked to discover that this place provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 42.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score consists of quite a few datapoints, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To pair with its low total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really bad scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing falls which led to major injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in that category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 97.02517 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.86 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Loln Hills of New Albany Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients which have sustained UTI's. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better