Menig Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. The nursing grade includes numerous subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received a virtually flawless government inspection. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. This was one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our next area, this nursing home received a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the final category, this facility was awarded an excellent short-term care grade. While this wasn't as impressive as several of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of our stronger grades we offer. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.