Lyons Living Center

Lyons Living Center is located in Lyons, Nebraska. The city has 1,280 people. With an overall grade of A-, this facility is among the better nursing homes we looked at. Based on the data we reviewed, you can't go wrong with this facility. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which are also strong.

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this facility received an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care scores are critical for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing. This means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Moving on to the last category, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area. This completed a very impressive report card. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 87.5 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.