Lake Crossing Health Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also was given a positive long-term care grade. In fact, we gave them a grade of B+ in that area, which happens to be one of our better. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.31035 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With a grade this poor in this category, we weren't shocked to learn this facility was well below average in two of the key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we analyzed was nursing, which was this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is certainly a major disappointment. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the major data points we considered, with good scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.