Tomah Nursing and Rehab

While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we did give it a strong grade in nursing, where it received a B+. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home received its next best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is a decent grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. Our inspection ratings weigh many items on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This often signifies that a bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.

The final area we scored was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 73.049644 percent of its residents. This is pretty significantly lower than average. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.