Dells Nursing and Rehab Center

Although this facility's overall grade was rock bottom, it didn't perform as badly in nursing. In fact, we awarded it a B- for this category. When computing our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a B- for its short-term care rating, which is not too bad of a score. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is typically a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

This facility also didn't fare too badly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a B- for that area, which turned out to be another one of its higher scores. In calculating our long-term care grades, we look at the personal care received by the nursing home's patients. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility gave the vaccine to just 85.06493 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home didn't receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. Consequently, we had to give it an F. With places that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.