Lakepoint Wichita

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a B- in this category. Nursing scores are largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

We were also pleasantly surprised to find that this nursing home earned a solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We awarded it a C in this category. Our long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's amount of nursing care. This means a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 76.59575 percent of its residents. This is several points below average. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This facility did not receive positive government inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F here. For places that received this bad of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically indicates that a bad performance spanned several years.