Cottage Grove Nursing Home

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

The next best area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 97.58064 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We were stunned to find that this facility also excelled in nursing. We awarded it an D for that category, which is one of our best grades. There are a number of criteria within this category. Most of these subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home really did not fare very well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a useful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. With a score this poor in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we assess. In fact, it offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.