Little Chute Health Services

This nursing home's best category score came in nursing. In this area, we gave this nursing home a B. It outperformed most facilities in this category. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's inspection grade also was better than its overall score. Due to a quality inspection report this year, it earned one of our better grades in that area with a B. Our inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's worst area was long-term care, which is the final area we scored. We gave it an F in this category. Even with some solid grades in other categories, this grade is still concerning so we would like to to make sure you are aware. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.537315 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly less than we expected but still a respectable figure. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.