Ascension Living - Lakeshore at Siena

Ascension Living - Lakeshore at Siena is a small non-profit facility in Racine, Wisconsin. It looks like this nursing home is among the best nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our grading scheme requires excellent scores across the board. We rated this facility in the top 100 nursing homes in Wisconsin, which is a distinguished list. Headlining this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its dominant performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its short-term care score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is considered to be a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This place is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it supplied roughly one and a half times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 49.7 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its first-rate assessment, this facility also was awarded a superb long-term care grade, with a score of A. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records is superb as well. Indeed, it vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our final area, this nursing home also was awarded a first-rate nursing grade, with a grade of A. This completed a very strong profile. The nursing score consists of many factors, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also fared well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is typically an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care and a policy of regularly turning residents to prevent bed sores.