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Lakewood Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Lakewood Care Center's website

600 Main Avenue South,
Baudette MN 56623

(218) 634-3488

84.06% estimated occupancy ¹

Lakewood Care Center is located in Baudette, Minnesota, a city with a population of 2,749 people. This facility received an A- overall, which is a high-end score. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the country. Keep reading to see this facility's category grades, which are also strong. It's hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy

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Nurse Quality

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 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 place 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 many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. Our inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

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Short-term Care Quality

This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Our short-term care grades are presumably more critical for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Long-term Care Quality

In our final area, this facility also was awarded a very strong long-term care rating, with a grade of B+. This finished off a first-rate report card. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.47312 percent of its residents. This is a few points lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Lakewood Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Lakewood Care Center, 5.71% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Lakewood Care Center, 3.23% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. More supervision reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Lakewood Care Center, 4.35% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients who experienced UTI's. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Lakewood Care Center, 9.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of long-term residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Lakewood Care Center, 16.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Lakewood Care Center, 2.3% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Lakewood Care Center, 93.91% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Lakewood Care Center, 15.07% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.