Lyndon Woods Care and Rehabilitation

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. The nursing score includes a number of subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient more often.

Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a grade of C for its short-term care rating, which isn't a bad grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The last metric 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 just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This nursing home also didn't perform too badly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C in that category, which wound up being another one of its more favorable scores. Long-term care grades are generally used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 36.28118 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly lower than average. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F here. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.