Dycora Transitional Health - Greendale

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. If it wasn't for this grade, this nursing home's overall score would have been much worse. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we awarded this nursing home an B+ for our inspections category. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing grade analyzes a handful of factors, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Turning to the final category, this facility didn't fare very well. Due to a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is its worst category grade. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.