Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare
1291 Craig Avenue, Lakeport CA 95453 · (707) 263-6382 · 78.78% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare is located in Lakeport, California. The city has 11,256 people. With an overall grade of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Lakeport. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
While we were not complementary of this facility's overall score, it earned an impressive short-term care score this year. We awarded it a grade of B in this area, which proved to be a rare glimmer of hope in its profile. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this nursing home performed much more favorably. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country with 58.5 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Facility Inspections
Surprisingly, this facility actually earned a good grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we gave it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Few nursing homes that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that have too many severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade is based on many factors, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at is long-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.73756 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.56 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this metric may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better