Kadima Rehabilitation & Nursing at Lakeside

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This place provides an impressive 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of this total, more than one fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in computing our nursing grades. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

This facility also received a positive short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Short-term care grades are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. It performed respectably in this area with 48.7 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in that category. Sadly, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to some degree. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.47059 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.