American Lutheran Home-Mondovi

American Lutheran Home-Mondovi is a small nursing home in Mondovi, Wisconsin. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly a very strong facility. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this critical area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

To complement its first-rate accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most meaningful for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this facility's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility offers more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Wisconsin in this area with 65.2 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing rating weighs a number of subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Of this total, more than one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most skilled levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours provided by skilled nurses in calculating our nursing scores. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was given an above average long-term care rating this year, with a C. Even though this was not quite as dominant as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a respectable rating for that category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 97.77778 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.5 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.