Dycora Transitional Health - Watertown

Dycora Transitional Health - Watertown is located in Watertown, Wisconsin. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Watertown. The city has just one other nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it is able to raise its standard of care going forward.

While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our more favorable grades in that category with a B. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our short-term care grade, which isn't a bad grade. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 52.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a better rate than most nursing homes.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing rating considers a variety of datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This place provided a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal marks in several of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this metric.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. We gave it an F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.46524 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable percentage. We were far less impressed with the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 3.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is nearly twice the national average.