Appleton City Manor

To go along with its strong overall grade, this nursing home earned a B+ for its nursing rating. Our nursing grade features many subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 88.37209 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home was awarded an impressive short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to the last category we assessed, this facility received a good score in inspections as well. We awarded it a B for that category. This nursing home didn't have any major weak links. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.