Lake Taylor Hospital

One of the reasons this proved to be a great facility is that it received a very impressive long-term care rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.518074 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also was strong in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes received a better grade in this category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility was given an acceptable nursing score. Although this wasn't nearly as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is still not a major area of concern. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below average. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.