Meadow Lake Senior Living

One of the reasons this nursing home performed so well overall is it excelled in nursing, with a B+ in that area. It outpaced most facilities here. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was among the more impressive totals we found. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a fair measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this area than in its staffing levels. This place fared as well as just about any facility in this area with 58 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of providing well above average levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.27586 percent of its residents. This statistic is also much better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we looked at, we found that this facility earned a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. As a result, it earned a decent score in our inspection category with a B. This nursing home really didn't have any major weak links. Our inspection scores are tied to data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.