Lutheran Crossings Enhanced Living at Moorestown

With an address in Moorestown, New Jersey, Lutheran Crossings Enhanced Living at Moorestown is one of four available nursing homes in the city. It looks like this is a fine facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid score. In our view, this nursing home is a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for the area of inspections. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.4 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 place New Jersey in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents at least once a day.

Turning to the next area, this facility also earned a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is generally a solid measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 55 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this area, we gave this nursing home a D. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 95.70815 percent of its patients, which is a very solid total. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.89 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.