Shady Lawn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
2582 Cerulean Road, Cadiz KY 42211 · (270) 522-3236 · 73.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Shady Lawn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Cadiz, Kentucky. This nursing home turns out to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. The best aspect of this facility's strong report card was its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 50 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also received top notch health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of A+. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home fared well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of A- for that area, which is one of our most dominant scores. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. This facility performed admirably in this subcategory. Avoiding serious falls is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be prevented if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we looked at is short-term care, ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. This really is one of just a few weak links of a quality report card. Our short-term care scores are critical for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It looks like this nursing home was below average in many staffing areas we focus on. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 23.8 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Shady Lawn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better