Lindengrove Mukwonago

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

This facility also received an A+ for its short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a fair measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient more frequently.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility received a decent long-term care grade. While this isn't as elite as several of its other scores, this is truly nothing to be ashamed of. In determining our long-term care scores, we look at the facility's personal care services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted vaccination data. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.