Rock County Hospital Long Term Care

Although this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this area, which is a decent score. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B-. In determining our nursing scores, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's next most favorable area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last category we looked at is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.09091 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.