Edenbrook Lakeside

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we gave it a strong grade in the area of short-term care, where it received a B. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Our nursing grade assesses many subcategories, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which is not a very good score. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 94.46254 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Moving on our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a horrible grade. We weight this category more heavily than other categories. For nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines of over $100,000. This generally suggests that a poor track record has been an issue for several years.