Artman Lutheran Home

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. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A for that category. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 7.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. Adding to its high-end resume, this nursing home also excelled in that category. In fact, we gave it a of A- in that area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 94.57365 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we graded, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility wrapped up a very favorable profile. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving patients even once per day.