Geneva Lake Manor

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really fared well in long-term care, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.32886 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. This facility was awarded an above average short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we scored is nursing, where this facility received a B. This nursing home didn't turn out to have any real weak links. There are a number of subcategories included in this category. Many of these criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 Wisconsin in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients more frequently.