Madison Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Although we were not complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually earned an impressive nursing score this year. We gave it a B in this category. There are quite a few datapoints included in this category. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is a more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's third best area was long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. In computing our long-term care grades, we analyze the assistance with daily living received by the facility's patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 98.039215 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we graded is short-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is considered to be a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. As you might expect, we learned that this facility provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that 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.