The Estates of Hidden Lake

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything to write home about. Its best category was nursing, but even there it received a D. When calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is slightly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this facility's second highest score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 51.80723 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

We wanted to point out this facility's inspection rating where it received an F. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also want to point out that this place received significant government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

Switching gears to the final category, this facility did not perform well in this area either. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home.