Jewish Home and Care Center

Jewish Home and Care Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is without a doubt a very good nursing home. We could not find many negative things to say about this facility. Its grades are impeccable. Scroll down to see this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong. It is hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With below 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any nursing home the country in this category.

This nursing home also received a strong short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second most impressive category score. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Wisconsin in this area with 58.8 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Adding another impressive category grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B. While this wound up being its poorest category grade, this is nevertheless a quality rating. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 94.67312 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complex patients.