Nazareth Health and Rehab Center

Nazareth Health and Rehab Center is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Stoughton, Wisconsin. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. In our view, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing. In computing our nursing grades, we apply more weight to care provided by registered nurses. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facilities third most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this category. Our short-term care grades are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types 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. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 39.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our fourth category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for the area of long-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category grade. Of course, this grade hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 96.86411 percent of its patients, which is an above average figure. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.