Rennes Health and Rehab Center-Weston

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ long-term care score. This is flat out as dominant as it gets in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the impressive nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.44 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

The next category we looked at was short-term care. Contributing to its strong profile, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we gave it a of A for the area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 63.6 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.

In the final area, this nursing home also received an excellent nursing rating, with a grade of A-. This topped off a first-rate profile. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This particular facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This was one of the higher totals we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Wisconsin in this category.