Grace Luth Communities-Prairie Pointe Rehab Suites
286 N Willson Dr, Altoona WI 54720 · (715) 598-7800 · 77.29% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Altoona, Wisconsin, Grace Luth Communities-Prairie Pointe Rehab Suites is one of just a few available nursing homes in this city. We awarded this nursing home an A+ overall grade, ranking it in the top ten percentile of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our analysis, you can not go wrong here. This also wound up being a very consistent nursing home with consistent ratings in each of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.
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Accepts Medicaid 1 : 48 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Wisconsin in this area with 66.1 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This place boasts a really impressive 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Long-term Care Quality
In our last category, we awarded this nursing home an A for its long-term care score. This rounded out a very impressive profile. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.24324 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.93 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grace Luth Communities-Prairie Pointe Rehab Suites Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that sustained a fall leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better