Dells Nursing and Rehab Center

This facility's best category grade came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Short-term care grades are crucial for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing score is largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third highest category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care instead of the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to just 86.50307 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Finally, we found that this nursing home has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it a B- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings are not something to panic about.