Lindengrove Waukesha

Lindengrove Waukesha is located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack score. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this facility's report card was is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

This facility excelled in the category of short-term care, with an A+ in this category. This really propped up its overall grade. With our short-term care category, we strive to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This place excelled at the highest level in two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered about 50% more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the typical facility. This is an encouraging sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 57 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. There are a number of subcategories within this grade. Many of the subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This place provided 5.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by both of these statistics. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility earned its third best category grade in the area of inspections. Inspection scores are based on a nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. Surprisingly, this facility had a category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This usually means the government inspectors found a deficiency which places resident health or safety in immediate jeopardy. Finally, we want to point out that this nursing home received some government fines recently. We were relieved to find that these fines were on the lower end of the spectrum. Nevertheless, this is still not what you like to see.

The last category we assessed was long-term care, ended up being this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. This really was one of just a couple of weak points of a quality profile. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering nursing care provided by this nursing home, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. With a long-term care grade in this range, it is surprising to learn that this facility received respectable marks in both of these statistics. In fact, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not bad since it had some more complex patients.