Lindengrove Menomonee Falls

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this facility's weakest area. A facility is doing something right when their worst score still is better than most other nursing homes. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.