Lakemed Care and Rehabilitation

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care score this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we can find for this facility. Our short-term care scores are probably more critical for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. We gave it a C for that category. Other aspects of its profile turned out to be the source of its abysmal overall score. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility had 6 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This means that this facility avoided the more ominous classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last category we scored was long-term care, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 53.409092 percent of its patients, which is well below average. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.