Lake Country Nursing Center

On top of being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it was awarded a very impressive long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care ended up being its second most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.45946 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, which is a low point for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our short-term care category, rendering this its worst grade. We would nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. Our short-term care ratings are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the staffing figures we assessed. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.