Aspirus Care & Rehab-Medford

Aspirus Care & Rehab-Medford is located in Medford, Wisconsin. This city has 11,755 people. It looks like this nursing home is among the most elite facilities we looked at. A grade in this range requires top-notch marks across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes nationally. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's exemplary report card is its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed 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. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have 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 nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing scores are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Roughly a quarter of that care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics easily exceed the national average. Lastly, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home Wisconsin in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.

Building on its fine profile, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a score of A. Our short-term care ratings are likely most important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this place's strengths is it provides more than an hour of care per day from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this metric, as it's roughly 1.5 times higher than the typical facility's level of registered nurse staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 59.7 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we rated is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our higher grades in this area, with a B. Even though this isn't as favorable as many of its other scores, it is still a positive grade. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.39759 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.