Lakeview Health Care & Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home's overall score was bolstered by the fact that it has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

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 area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home was given its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home was given a respectable long-term care score of C. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.969696 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.