Lakeland Village Nursing Facility

With an address in Medical Lake, Washington, Lakeland Village Nursing Facility is the sole facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is among the more impressive nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the United States. Keep reading to see this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.74267 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. This facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.3 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

The last area we scored turned out to be this facility's worst area. However, even its lowest point would be a highlight for many nursing homes. We gave it a strong grade of B for short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.