Lakepoint El Dorado

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the third area, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is more often than not a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final category we scored. For this category, we gave this facility a D. We would like to to draw your attention to this potential weak link, however, you should not over-emphasize one bad area either. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.25926 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.