American Lutheran Home-Mondovi

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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.

Adding to its first-rate accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care score. With our short-term care grade, we strive to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One reason for this place's favorable score in this area is it offers more care from registered nurses than a typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 69.7 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Our nursing rating is based on quite a few factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly skilled nurses. In calculating our nursing scores, we add more weight to hours provided by registered nurses. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

Turning to our last area, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable long-term care grade. Even though this wasn't nearly as strong as many of its other category grades, this is truly a middle of the pack score. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 98.52941 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.59 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.