Lindengrove Menomonee Falls

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Contributing to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also received a high-end short-term care score. We gave them a strong grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care scores are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this subcategory. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident more often.

The next category we graded was long-term care. This facility was awarded a grade of C in this category. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.