Faith Lutheran Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade considers many subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident even once per day.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Compounding its high-end assessment, this nursing home also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A-. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility also excelled in the long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that area. This wrapped up a very strong report card. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.35065 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.