Norseland Nursing Home
323 Black River Ave, Westby WI 54667 · (608) 634-3747 · 75.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Norseland Nursing Home is a small government-owned facility located in Westby, Wisconsin. With an overall score of A-, this facility is one of the better facilities we looked at. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. This facility also received consistently good ratings in each of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 59 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received a strong nursing rating. We awarded it an A in that category. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. In determining our scores, we apply more weight to hours provided by more highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its strong resume, this nursing home also was given a superb short-term care score, with a score of A. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility provides more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. This place outperformed the majority of facilities in the country in this area with 54 percent of its residents returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.
Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without complete deficiency related data for this nursing home, it is challenging to evaluate the place in the area of inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Although this is not as dominant as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our stronger scores we offer. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.75777 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Norseland Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better