Menig Nursing Home

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home also was superb in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Very few nursing homes performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to offering very favorable levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be effective as this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the final area, this nursing home received an acceptable short-term care grade. While this wasn't quite as elite as several of its other scores, this is still not the end of the world. Our short-term care scores are probably most meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.