Lakeside Health and Rehab

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. It does not appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without complete information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being challenging to fully assess it in terms of this category.

One of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the area of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. We'd have to do a little more digging into this place before expressing a stronger opinion on this category as it appears we were missing a few datapoints for long-term care.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that area. Our short-term care grade is generally used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Considering its weak grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The last category we graded is nursing, which is a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D for the area of nursing. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of data points, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.