Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A. Our short-term care grades are likely more critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to track down deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it was challenging to evaluate the place in this category.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we assessed is long-term care, which was this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. However, we wouldn't judge this facility based solely on a single bad category, since it was awarded multiple very strong scores in other areas. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.