Madison Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Although this facility's overall grade was terrible, it didn't perform as badly in nursing. In fact, we awarded it a C for this category. There are several datapoints included in this grade. Many of these factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, nursing scores also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This nursing home's next highest category was short-term care, but it nevertheless received a grade of just D in that category. This still happens to be a relatively poor grade. In our short-term care category, we try to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. Our inspection scores weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you find too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular facility was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This generally signifies that a poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in that category. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.13793 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.