Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center is a small hospital-based facility located in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is a high-end grade. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top quarter of all facilities in the United States. As you can find below, this facility also performed well in our category scores. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Adult Day Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its great overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also would like to note the fact that this nursing home received a superb grade of A- in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the fourth area, this facility received a high-end short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area, completing one of our finer report cards. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 5.63% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 4.41% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 5.97% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 16.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 2.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 2.31% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 99.32% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 23.33% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 16.72% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 0.65 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Burnett Medical Center’s Continuing Care Center, 16.72% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Burnett Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0 miles away257 W St George Ave Grantsburg Wisconsin 54840Voluntary non-profit - Private(715) 463-5353
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Siren Dialysis14.75 miles away24670 State Road 35 Up Ste 100 Siren Wisconsin 54872Dialysis Stations: 8 (715) 349-4220