Edenbrook of Oshkosh

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second strongest score. In determining our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. This is as good as it gets in this area. There are a number of criteria within this grade. Many of these criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility really didn't fare very well. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's worst category. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 96.666664 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.