Lakeside Special Care Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. The nursing rating includes quite a few datapoints, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 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 nursing home 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 typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also would like to note the fact that this facility was given a strong score of A in our long-term care category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.72145 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we graded, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up an elite profile. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.