Kewaunee Health Services

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.

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.

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.

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.