Lake Mills Health Services

Lake Mills Health Services is a nursing home located in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, a city with a total of 8,273 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is a strong grade. You can definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive short-term care rating. In fact, short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's about 50% higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Wisconsin in this area with 58.9 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of components, but the paramount one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Roughly one-fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by skilled nurses more in determining our nursing grades. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Moving on to our next area, this facility received a decent long-term care grade. Although this was not quite as dominant as a few of its other category grades, this is really not a bad grade. In calculating these long-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.23009 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.