Madison Groove Post Acute

This nursing home actually did not perform quite as poorly in long-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of C for that category. In our long-term care assessment, we weigh the sheer quantity of services provided by a facility, along with a series of quality statistics. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.875465 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility didn't perform horribly in the area of inspections. We gave it a C for that category. Other aspects of its profile were the source of its abysmal overall score. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category J through L deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to place patient safety or health in immediate harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a poor score. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is typically a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.