Rehabilitation Center of Lisbon

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Iowa in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident more often.

The next category we scored is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B-. This ended up being this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for those needing more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 98.98477 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.