The Recovery Inn an Eduro Healthcare Community

The Recovery Inn an Eduro Healthcare Community is one of six available facilities located in Appleton, Wisconsin. It looks like this nursing home is among the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. In fact, it was given our absolute highest score. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top five percentile of all nursing homes in the country. Finally, this appears to be a very consistent facility with consistent scores in all four of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This exemplary facility also excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes fared better in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. This facility is off the charts in this area.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care. Contributing to its superb profile, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, it received a of A in the category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered significantly more care from registered nurses than most facilities. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. It performed as well as just about any facility in Wisconsin in this area with 58.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term patients return home.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. We awarded it an A for this category. This rounded out truly elite profile. The nursing grade weighs several subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular facility provided 6.8 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.