Lynwood Manor Healthcare Center

While we were not complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it received an impressive nursing score this year. We gave it a B in this area. When computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility was awarded its next best category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.22222 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home earned slightly below average government inspections in recent years. We awarded them a C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk 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.

Moving on to the next category, we gave this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This is the nursing home's least impressive category score. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score in this range in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home was below average in many staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.6 percent of its patients returning home.