Lakeside Manor

This place's scores were terrible across the board. In particular, we want to draw your attention to its inspection grade where it received an F. This isn't a good sign for its government inspection reports. For places with bad inspection ratings, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility had multiple deficiencies in categories G through L, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Lastly, we need to point out that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This typically indicates that a nursing home's bad track record spanned more than one year.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an F. The nursing grade analyzes quite a few subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Another concern was the F this facility was given in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home.

Switching gears to the next area, this facility really did not fare well here either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 96.503494 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.