Lomond Peak Nursing and Rehabilitation

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's next most respectable category is long-term care, but even there it earned a grade of just D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor score. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.5098 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. With our short-term care grade, we strive to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this area. Our nursing rating is based on several subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged a meager 2.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing grade substantially.