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Nursing Home Earns Five-Star Rating

Voices - 7/15/2017

SOUTHBURY - Lutheran Home of Southbury, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center offering short-term skilled rehabilitation and traditional long-term care, recently achieved a five-star rating in all categories by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services nursing home quality rating system.

According to the CMS website, "The Five-Star Quality Rating System was created to help consumers, their families and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily and to help identify areas about which you may want to ask questions.

The nursing home compare website features a quality rating system that gives each nursing home a rating of between one and five stars. Nursing homes with five stars are considered to have much above average quality and nursing homes with one star are considered to have quality much below average."

There is one overall five-star rating for each nursing home and a separate five-star rating in the categories of Department of Public Health inspections, staffing and quality measures.

The quality measures rating, for example, collects information on how nursing homes are caring for their residents' physical and clinical needs.

Lutheran Home, at this time, has five-star ratings in each separate category as well as overall.

"Very few centers achieve this distinction," said LHS administrator Brian Bedard.

"This is a well-deserved honor achieved through hard work, compassion, expertise, teamwork and a determination to be the best choice for care in our marketplace," he said. "We are all very proud."

Those seeking more information may call 203-264-9135 or visit www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html.

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