Haven of Lakeside

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The third category we graded is long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated only 88.28829 percent of its patients for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to the last area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in nursing. This is the nursing home's worst category grade. There are a number of factors within this category. Most of these factors relate to staffing levels. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.