The Estates of Spanish Lake

We didn't have any favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall grade or its category grades. Its best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed badly. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 57.692307 percent of its residents. This is many points below what we expected. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating and that actually turned out to be its second highest score. Our nursing score is primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning our last category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. For facilities with poor inspection scores, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.