Sheboygan Progressive Health Services

Although this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it did receive a very good score in the category of inspections. We gave it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facilities next most favorable area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average score in this area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is often a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 96.732025 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.