Lynhurst Healthcare

This facility's best category grade came in short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Short-term care grades are crucial for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also earned a strong inspection score. Inspection grades are based on the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this category. Our inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. There are quite a few factors included in this grade. Many of the datapoints relate to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The last category we graded is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave it an F in this area, which is certainly very concerning. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 40.76923 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.