Morningside Health Services

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing ended up being its best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Wisconsin in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this category. In determining these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, 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 patients returned home.

The final area we rated is long-term care, where this facility received a grade of C. This ended up being this facility's worst category. This is still not a poor grade. In our long-term care rating, we focus on the sheer volume of care offered by a facility, along with a handful of qualitative metrics. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 96.92308 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.