Rib Lake Health Services

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. You can't do much better than a deficiency-free inspection report.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home was awarded impressive grades in the category of short-term care also. Indeed, we gave it one of our highest scores in that area with a area of A-. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we graded is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that area. However, you should not assess this nursing home solely on a single area, as it was given many impressive scores in other areas. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.