Norwood Health Center-Pathways

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our nursing rating is primarily based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.8 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 many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

We also want to note the fact that this nursing home was awarded a strong score of A in our long-term care area. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 95 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our short-term care grade. This topped off a very strong profile. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.