Sky View Nursing Center

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309 Iron St, Hurley WI 54534 · (715) 561-5646 · 76.36% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata

Sky View Nursing Center is one of just two nursing homes in Hurley, Wisconsin. This nursing home turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a high-end rating. Based on our analysis, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. Keep reading to see this facility's category ratings, which are also impressive. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

Additional Details:

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For profit - Individual

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Family Council: FalseUsed to indicate false.

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)

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Medical Staff
Therapy Staff

Nurse Quality

A+
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Historical

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. The nursing rating includes several datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility offers 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly skilled nurses. In computing our nursing grades, we attach more significance to hours provided by registered nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

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Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Short-term Care Quality

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The next area we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its strong resume, this facility also excelled in this category. In fact, it received a of A- in that category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

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The next category we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. This actually is this facility's weakest area. A nursing home is doing something right when it's worst grade still rates higher than most other facilities. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Overall Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Aug 20
Provider:
A
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B+
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Nurse Rating
Long-Term Rating
Short-Term Rating
Inspection Rating

Sky View Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.

Provider
A+
0%
State
B+
5.64%
National
B
7.34%

Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better

Minimizes Serious Falls

This measures the percent of long-term care residents who experienced a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.

Provider
B
3.06%
State
B
3.54%
National
B
3.36%

Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.

Provider
B-
3.13%
State
B
2.92%
National
B
2.66%

Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.

Provider
A
5.21%
State
B+
12.1%
National
B
14.15%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Provider
B-
21.88%
State
B+
15.28%
National
B
19.69%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Managing Depression Among Residents

This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression.

Provider
A+
0%
State
B
5.26%
National
B+
5.11%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

This indicates the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Provider
B+
98.44%
State
B
93.65%
National
B
92.01%

Percent of Patients
Higher is Better

Residents Maintain Autonomy

This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.

Provider
C
19.79%
State
B+
13.53%
National
B
14.47%

Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.

Provider
A-
21.33%
State
B
18.07%
National
B
17.10%

Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better

Hospitalizations

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Provider
B
1.54
State
B+
1.35
National
B
1.70

Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Provider
C
21.33
State
B
18.07
National
B
17.10

Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better

Nearby Hospitals

Aspirus Ironwood Hospital 4.29 mi
n10561 Grand View Lane Ironwood Michigan 49938
(906) 932-2525
Critical Access Hospitals
Voluntary non-profit - Private

Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=52A429
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