Door County Medical Center Snf
323 S 18th Ave, Sturgeon Bay WI 54235 · (920) 743-5566 · 91.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Door County Medical Center Snf is in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a city with 17,203 people. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top five percent of all nursing homes in the country. In addition, this is a hospital-based nursing home, which may add peace of mind for prospective patients with significant health conditions. This facility also received impressive scores in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 30 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the country in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its fine assessment, this facility also was awarded an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of A. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we scored was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded an A. This rounded out a very strong report card. Only a select few facilities earned an A- or better in every category. Our short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. When we assessed this nursing home's nursing hours, we found it provided much more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Door County Medical Center Snf Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better