Medilodge of Wyoming

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Michigan in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.

Adding to its impressive grades, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave them one of our higher scores in that category, with a score of B+. In our short-term care category, we try to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next category we scored is long-term care, which was this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. However, you should not judge this facility solely on a single weak area, since it was awarded multiple excellent grades in other areas. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.04762 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.