Continuing Healthcare of Lisbon

While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that had too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category was short-term care, but it still received just a D in that category. This turns out to be a well below average score. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. The nursing score includes numerous factors. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This number is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a very poor score. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 94.57365 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.