Butler Memorial Hosp Tcf

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given an A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most critical for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing rating includes a number of subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility also performed admirably in the long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this category. This rounded out truly elite profile. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.