Kindred Hospital Lima

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This top notch nursing home also dominated in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A+. Only a small group of facilities fared better in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. The nursing score assesses several components, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.7 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the last category we looked at, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility completed a straight A report card. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.