Morrow Memorial Home

Morrow Memorial Home is located in Sparta, Wisconsin, a city with a total of 17,377 people. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. This place has a few things going for it. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. 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.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided with better nursing care.

This facility was given its third most favorable category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a decent score. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 37.2 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. This facility was given a grade of C in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.26 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.