Little Chute Health Services

This nursing home earned a favorable short-term care score this year. We gave them a strong score in that area, with a B+. This is a better grade than the nursing home's overall score and was a boost to its overall profile. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Inspections is another area where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an B+ for our inspections category. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. Our nursing grade includes quite a few components, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.2 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a resident more often.

This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we scored. It received a lowly F in this category. Even with multiple respectable grades in other categories, this grade is still concerning so we wanted to make a note of it. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.113205 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.