Bornemann Nursing Home

This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A for that category, which is one of our best grades. This boosted its profile. In calculating our short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

We also awarded this facility a solid grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the quantity of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 95.04132 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we assessed is inspections. Unfortunately, we were surprised to find that this facility received such a poor inspection rating. We gave it a just D in this category. This score is not on par with some of this nursing home's other category grades. Inspection ratings relate to a nursing home's government inspections. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 17 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.