Leslie Lakes Retirement Center

While this facility's overall grade was not a highlight, it did receive a very good score in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. In spite of this deficiency, this was still a relatively favorable report.

This facility also received a positive grade in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility a better than average grade of B in that area. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.113205 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we scored is short-term care, which ended up being a weak link for this facility. We awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of short-term care. With our short-term care category, we attempt to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.