Lincoln Park Manor

This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. If it was not for this area, this facility's overall grade would have been much worse. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. The nursing grade includes several subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor score. This is clearly a major disappointment. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility gave the vaccine to just 82.97872 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.