Cedarburg Health Services

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also received an elite nursing rating. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility 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 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its first-rate short-term care score. We gave them one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a grade of A. With our short-term care category, we try to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. This nursing home had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. In this area, we awarded this facility an D. Facilities that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 89.85507 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.