Haven of Lakeside

This nursing home earned an elite short-term care grade. In fact, we gave this facility an A- in this category, which really helped its overall grade. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. We gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing score is based on quite a few datapoints, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, although this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this statistic.

The final area we scored was long-term care, which is this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this area. Naturally, this grade pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. For long-term care residents, the primary goal 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. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.333336 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.