Norwood Health Center-Pathways
1600 N Chestnut Ave, Marshfield WI 54449 · (715) 384-2188 · 65.83% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Feb 1, 2019 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Norwood Health Center-Pathways is one of four nursing homes in this area. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the highest-rated nursing homes we assessed. Being awarded an A+ in our grading scheme requires excellent scores across the board. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a great choice for most people. Headlining this nursing home's stellar profile is its nursing rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicaid 1 : 12 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating analyzes several factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 7.7 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly skilled levels of nurses. This is among the highest totals of nursing hours we found. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the state in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.
Facility Inspections
This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the facility's inspection reports. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care score. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of A in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility topped off a straight A profile. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it provided roughly one and a half times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Norwood Health Center-Pathways Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better