Rose Lane Nursing and Rehabilitation

This facility earned a long-term care grade which is better than its overall score. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this area. This really boosted its overall profile. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.46524 percent of its residents, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing score features a variety of subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services To have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The last area we looked at is inspections. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent inspection reports. This facility received a score of C in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent danger to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.