Wi Veterans Hm Olson Hall

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing rating considers several factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among its many high-end grades, this nursing home was given a strong long-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.57537 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is considered to be a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Finishing off this facility's impressive profile, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of A- for our inspections rating. With this score, the facility completes its straight A report card. Inspection grades are tied to data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.