Island Lake Center

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. Inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 90.026245 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility was given a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a score of B+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we rated proved to be this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of B- for our nursing category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most other nursing homes. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We especially look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these problems.