The Mosaic of Lakeshore

This facility received rock bottom grades in our assessment. Most alarmingly, it received an F for its inspection grade. Typically, this means we found some red flags on the facility's government inspections. When a place has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident 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.

This nursing home ended up receiving a an abysmal grade in our short-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this area. Our short-term care grades are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its weak grade in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. 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. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The next category we looked at was long-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 40.638004 percent of its patients. This is many points less than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

The next category we rated was nursing, where this facility received a poor grade here also. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. The nursing score includes quite a few factors, but the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averaged just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.