Midwest Covenant Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

On the list of its many high-end scores, this facility received a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 90.32258 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final area we analyzed ended up being this facility's poorest category. However, even in its worst category we still gave it a respectable grade of B- in short-term care. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.