Lakeview Manor

With more than 25 options located in Indianapolis, Indiana, Lakeview Manor is one of many options here. This facility received an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, this nursing home probably isn't a fit for any prospective resident. In spite of all this, this nursing home surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned an impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Among this nursing home's host of abysmal grades was its F in the area of long-term care. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 99.65636 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.43 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This particular place provided a meager 3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in two of the areas we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These datapoints are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.

The last category we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is more often than not a meaningful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 29.9 percent of its patients returning home.