Kewaunee Health Services is in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. The city has a total of 6,276 people. It looks like this is a quality facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is a strong score. At the end of the day, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Kewaunee Health Services
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of B+ for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 place the state 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 having a system of turning patients even once per day.
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Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B+. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable score in that area, with a grade of C. Even though this isn't as strong as some of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.34884 percent of its patients, which is higher than most nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kewaunee Health Services Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Kewaunee Health Services, 7.35% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Kewaunee Health Services, 3.21% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a fall which caused severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Kewaunee Health Services, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Kewaunee Health Services, 13.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Kewaunee Health Services, 16.32% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Kewaunee Health Services, 5.98% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Kewaunee Health Services, 92.12% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Kewaunee Health Services, 13.34% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Kewaunee Health Services, 17.08% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Kewaunee Health Services, 17.08 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Kewaunee Health Services, 76.01% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.