Lakeshore

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our third category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. This is a first-rate score. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category, this facility also was given an excellent nursing rating, with an A. This completed a straight A profile. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.