Lakeview Village

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.41349 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A+. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also want to emphasize the fact that this facility was given a top-shelf grade of A in our short-term care category. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Finally, this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. This is one of the few facilities in the country to receive an A- or better in all four categories. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.