Wilora Lake Healthcare Center

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of deficiencies. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category was long-term care, but it nevertheless received just a D in that category. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 86.63595 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit lower than average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Given its score in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.