Lakeport Post Acute

This facility's best category grade came in the area of health inspections. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facilities second most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals needing more conventional assistance associated with activities of daily living. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. When calculating our nursing ratings, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is well below average. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The last area we graded is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of C for the area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.