New Lexington Center

With an address in New Lexington, Ohio, New Lexington Center is the sole nursing home located in the area. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack score. In our view, this facility looks like a good fit for quite a few people. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This place fared better than most facilities with 52 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this nursing home an D. In determining our nursing ratings, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. With a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.

The final area we looked at was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's worst area. It received an F in this area, which is obviously concerning. For long-term care residents, 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 concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.