Lindengrove Mukwonago

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly flawless. Inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care scores are critical for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. The nursing category is based on quite a few components, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our next category, this facility received a strong long-term care score. While this was not nearly as strong as several of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive grades we offer. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 58.333332 percent of its patients, which is a few points less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it 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 a remarkably low figure.