Evergreen Lakeport Healthcare

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.