Fond Du Lac Lutheran Home

Fond Du Lac Lutheran Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a solid grade. The nursing homes in Fond Du Lac received quality scores across the board with a city grade of a B. One of the better aspects of this facility's report card is its impressive short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

This facility really excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. This boosted its overall profile. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any nursing home with 59.4 percent of its residents returning home.

We also wanted to note that this nursing home earned an impressive grade of B+ in the area of nursing. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Of this total, more than one fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most skilled levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours provided by skilled nurses in calculating our nursing scores. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors 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 are not the end of the world.

The final area we looked at is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. It received a lowly F in this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.35391 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was far less favorable. Here we found that this facility had 2.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.