Lyons Living Center

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. 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.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.

This nursing home also was given an impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It does not look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In the last category we rated, this nursing home was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a very favorable profile. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 87.5 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a few points less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.