Lindengrove Waukesha

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score analyzes a handful of factors, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents more often.

Adding to its fine profile, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care score, with a score of A. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Tallying another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B-. This actually was this nursing home's least impressive area. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the assistance with daily living received by a facility's patients. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.