Kenosha Estates Rehab and Care Center

In addition to having a decent overall score, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's top grade. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more often.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility's inspection grade also was quite a bit better than its overall grade. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had positive view of this facility's inspections.

This facility's least impressive area is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. It received an F in this area. In spite of a few respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.385544 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.