Mulder Health Care Facility is an average-sized nursing home in West Salem, Wisconsin. This facility received a rock bottom overall score based on the data we looked at. This facility doesn't seem to have any redeeming qualities. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Mulder Health Care Facility
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a very impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable scores in that category with a B. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
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Long-term Care Quality
Another issue was the F this facility was given in the category of long-term care. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 96.16859 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we scored is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mulder Health Care Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 6.93% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who have pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 3.27% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care residents who experienced falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 13.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 15.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 6.26% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 92.96% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 13.23% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 1.28 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 13.08 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mulder Health Care Facility, 75.51% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mayo Clinic Hlth System Franciscan Med CtrAcute Care Hospitals 10.54 miles away700 West Avenue South La Crosse Wisconsin 54601Voluntary non-profit - Private(608) 785-0940
- Gundersen Lutheran Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.22 miles away1910 South Ave La Crosse Wisconsin 54601Voluntary non-profit - Private(608) 782-7300
- Mayo Clinic Hlth Systm Franciscan Hlthcare SpartaCritical Access Hospitals 13.5 miles away310 W Main St Sparta Wisconsin 54656Voluntary non-profit - Church(608) 269-2132
Nearby Dialysis
- Gundersen Lutheran Renal Dialysis - Onalaska5.72 miles away3075 South Kinney Coulee Rd Onalaska Wisconsin 54650Dialysis Stations: 32 (608) 775-1360
- Mayo Clinic Dialysis - Onalaska6.05 miles away191 Theatre Road Onalaska Wisconsin 54650Dialysis Stations: 18 (608) 392-5011
- Gundersen Lutheran Renal Dialysis - La Crosse11.27 miles away1910 South Ave Heritage Building 2 West La Crosse Wisconsin 54601Dialysis Stations: 12 (608) 775-3835