Dycora Transitional Health - Greendale

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing grades are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned a score of A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of C. Although this is its worst category score, this is still a middle of the pack score. In our long-term care assessment, we look at the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as well as a few quality statistics. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. It does not appear that this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.