Twin Lakes

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Sadly, this facility was hit with a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection score. This category of deficiency means CMS found a widespread deficiency placing patient safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Even a single deficiency in this category is concerning. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With below five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category.

Moving on our next area, this facility received a top-shelf long-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.183205 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility was given a very strong grade of A in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio with 63.2 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents return home.