Wisconsin Veterans Home at King

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing score is based on numerous factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to inspections, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A for that category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We were not able to track down information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a dominant score of A- in our long-term care area. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.56332 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility wrapped up a straight A profile. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is frequently a reliable assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.