Dycora Transitional Health - Greendale

With an address in Greendale, Wisconsin, Dycora Transitional Health - Greendale is the lone nursing home located in the area. After receiving an A+ overall grade, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 100 best facilities in Wisconsin. This is an impressive feat in a state with a long list of high-end facilities. Based on our assessment, this nursing home should be a great choice for most people. Finally, we wanted to point out that there was an ownership change at this facility in the last 12 months. We will need to make sure it maintains its high grades going forward.

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. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received dominant marks in the category of short-term care. For this reason, it received one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A+. In crafting these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This facility is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it offered roughly 50% more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical nursing home. This is what we like to find when grading a facility in this category. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Wisconsin in this area with 71.5 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Turning the page to our next area, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a very strong grade. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our final area, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent nursing grade, with a grade of A-. This finished off a straight A profile. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the higher totals we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in Wisconsin in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.