Manitowoc Healthcare Center

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we awarded it a grade of A. Inspection scores are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our stronger scores in that area, with a score of B+. Short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded this facility a decent score in this category, with a grade of C. Even though this is not on par with a few of this nursing home's other scores, it is still nothing to be ashamed of. In computing our long-term care ratings, we look at the assistance with daily living received by a nursing home's residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.49875 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.