Lakeshore Heartland

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing category analyzes several components, most of which are associated with quantities 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that area, with a score of B+. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we assessed is long-term care. In this area, we gave this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This actually ended up being this facility's least impressive area. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals requiring more traditional services associated with personal care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 60.67961 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than what we expected. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.