Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village is a large non-profit nursing home in Crown Point, Indiana. This facility is a lower end facility. A grade of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Crown Point. The city has just one other nursing home. The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.
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Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Oct 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. The nursing score is based on many factors, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is not an impressive total. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. While this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this subcategory. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients even once per day.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second least favorable category is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. In crafting our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. With its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we analyzed was long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated only 70.136986 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 7.36% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 4.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents who have experienced a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 1.69% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 13.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to having more patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 22.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 14.48% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 91.03% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 15.46% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 12.91% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 1.53 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 12.91 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 12.43 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Healthcare Center at Wittenberg Village, 73.74% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Franciscan Health Crown PointAcute Care Hospitals 0.67 miles away1201 S Main St Crown Point Indiana 46307Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 757-6100
- St Mary Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 9.25 miles away1500 S Lake Park Ave Hobart Indiana 46342Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 942-0551
- Franciscan Health DyerAcute Care Hospitals 11.05 miles away24 Joliet St Dyer Indiana 46311Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 865-2141
- Franciscan Health MunsterAcute Care Hospitals 12.63 miles away701 Superior Ave Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 922-4200
- Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.09 miles away901 Macarthur Blvd Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 836-1600
- Methodist Hospitals IncAcute Care Hospitals 13.88 miles away600 Grant St Gary Indiana 46402Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 886-4000
- St Catherine Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 17 miles away4321 Fir St East Chicago Indiana 46312Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 392-7004
- Franciscan Health HammondAcute Care Hospitals 17.27 miles away5454 Hohman Ave Hammond Indiana 46320Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 932-2300
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Crown Point1.44 miles away851 W. Burrell St. Crown Point Indiana 46307CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (219) 662-2648
- Davita - Merrillville Dialysis3.75 miles away9223 Taft Street Merrillville Indiana 46410Dialysis Stations: 16 (219) 793-9035
- Fmc - Merrillville Dialysis Center4.65 miles away550 West 84th Drive Merrillville Indiana 46410CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (219) 795-1990
- Home Dialysis Services Merrillville, LLC5.28 miles away200 East 80th Place Suite 2 Merrillville Indiana 46410Dialysis Stations: 1 (219) 472-0379
- Davita - St. John Dialysis6.6 miles away10033 Wicker Ave Saint John Indiana 46373Dialysis Stations: 16 (219) 365-5043
- Merrillville North Dialysis Center7.6 miles away6059 Broadway Merrillville Indiana 46410CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (219) 980-1090
- Schererville Dialysis Center7.72 miles away1534 Us Highway 41 Schererville Indiana 46375Dialysis Stations: 17 (219) 322-5448
- Fmc - Hobart9.16 miles away1330 S. Wisconsin Street Hobart Indiana 46342CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (219) 947-9289