East Troy Manor

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of A. This is a much better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The third area we assessed was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a B- in this category. In computing our long-term care scores, we assess the assistance with daily living received by the facility's residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.588234 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to our final area, we gave this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This was the facility's worst category rating. Unfortunately, this grade pulled down the facility's overall grade to some degree. Short-term care grades are typically used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.