Fieser Nursing Center

While we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care grade. We awarded it a B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This place provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

As it turns out, this facility only received a D for its long-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 1.612903 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received an F here. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this category. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a nursing home's bad track record spanned several years.