United Zion Retirement Communi

United Zion Retirement Communi is located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. This city has 42,626 people. This is a very good facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is a strong grade. Impressively, the nursing homes in Lititz received high grades across the board, making this one of the best places in Pennsylvania to find a nursing home. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing rating consists of many subcategories, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular facility provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the better figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this facility was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These datapoints are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 41.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. This facility was awarded an impressive long-term care grade this year, with a grade of B-. Even though this was not as impressive as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless a respectable score for that category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the factors we considered on top of this facility's very solid nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.45652 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.