Dells Nursing and Rehab Center

We want to point out that this facility received favorable marks in the category of short-term care this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's best grade and helped its profile overall. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an B. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we also would like to note that this facility was given positive long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in that area, with a B. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 90.79755 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This pulled down this facility's overall grade significantly. For facilities with bad inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines in excess of $50,000. This typically means that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad inspections.