Heritage of Elmwood Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. The nursing category includes a handful of subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Wisconsin in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident more often.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. We were not able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the next area we assessed, this nursing home received elite marks in the area of long-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our most impressive grades in that category with a of A+. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.05882 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home 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 one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category we rated, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a straight A report card. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.