Lake Hamilton Health and Rehab

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave it an A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. 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 favorably is that it was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care is its second most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.03524 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home 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 one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we scored is short-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B-. This turned out to be this facility's weakest area. This is still not a major area of concern. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.