Friendly Village Nursing and Rehab Center

Friendly Village Nursing and Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.33555 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

The next category we looked at was short-term care. This facility was given an above average short-term care grade, with a grade of B in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this area with 53.9 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The last category we graded was nursing. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. There are many criteria within this grade. Most of the subcategories relate to staffing levels. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.