Lake Lodge Nursing and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many severe deficiencies flagged. 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. In spite of this deficiency, this was still a relatively favorable report.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. In our short-term care rating, we strive to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Considering its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this category as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.242424 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.