Indian Lake Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facilities third best area was short-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this area. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more critical for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to our final area, this facility was awarded an acceptable long-term care grade of C. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the amount of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated just 88.18898 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.