Wabasso Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

To pair with its impressive overall grade, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing score. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures 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.

In addition, this nursing home received a solid government inspection report this year as well. As a result, it received one of our better scores in that area with a B. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Turning to our next area, this facility also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we rated is long-term care, is this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This really was one of the few dings of a strong report card. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 92.40507 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.