Ladysmith Care & Rehab

Ladysmith Care & Rehab is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Ladysmith, Wisconsin. It looks like this is a fine facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average grade. As far as we can see, this nursing home is a solid choice for quite a few people. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 87.39496 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.58 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

The final category we looked at is short-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 32.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.