Lodge of the Wabash

To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this facility an A for the area of inspections. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

To complement its strong performance in other categories, we awarded this facility an B for nursing. Our nursing rating is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient even once per day.

This facility also was given a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in short-term care, which we consider to be an acceptable score. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.