Menno Haven Rehabilitation Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 7.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.6 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we rated is long-term care. We gave this facility a decent grade in this category, with a grade of B-. Although this is not as dominant as a few of this nursing home's other scores, it is still not a poor grade. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.