The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center

The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center is a large government-owned nursing home located in Gillette, Wyoming. With an overall rating of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Gillette. The best thing we can say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

While we did not have many positive things to say about this facility's overall score, it earned a respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent score in that category with a score of B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also considered some quality-based metrics. This place fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average. This is often an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

This facility's next most favorable area came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed well in this metric with 60 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Our next category is long-term care, where we gave this nursing home a grade of C in that area. In forming these long-term care scores, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.9381 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.