Bornemann Nursing Home

This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in this area. If it was not for this area, this facility's overall score would have been much worse. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the category of nursing, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A in that area. Nursing scores are primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also gave this nursing home a respectable score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 95.04132 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category of government inspections, we gave this nursing home just a D for our inspection category. This was its worst category grade, particularly in light of some of the more impressive scores discussed above. Nevertheless, since the inspection data is compiled by an independent government inspector, we weight it heavily in our overall grade. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. You should be more cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by CMS had potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 17 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.