Nhc Healthcare, Lewisburg

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. When determining our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

We also wanted to point out that this facility received a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it one of our best grades in that area with a score of A-. In our short-term care category, we attempt to create a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home was given its third best category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.52778 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Since this data is collected by independent inspectors, we tend to take it pretty seriously. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we need to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This often suggests that a facility's poor performance spanned several years.