Lakeview Village Senior Living

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it an A for this area, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this facility's list of achievements, it also received a high-end long-term care grade. We gave them an impressive strong of A- in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.10715 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The third area we looked at is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is generally a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next area we assessed is nursing, which turned out to be this facility's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Unfortunately, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this category. This facility averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Unfortunately, this place also did not perform as well as we had hoped in some of the quality measures we assessed for this category.