Elmbrook Home

On top of receiving a strong overall rating, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade. This score is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility fared well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which happens to be one of our better grades. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. The nursing rating is based on several components, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents more often.

Switching gears to the last category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in our short-term care category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category grade. However, we wouldn't dwell on one poor category. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.