The Estates at Lynnhurst

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 rating. Nursing scores are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we gave this facility a B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher grades. Short-term care ratings are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Next we looked at this facility's inspection score This grade is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded it a C in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care score of C. Our long-term care grades are crucial for patients needing non-healthcare services such as personal care. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 90.75144 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below what we expected. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.