Wi Veterans Home at Chippewa Falls

One of the reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. The nursing score is based on a host of subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the next area, this facility was awarded a respectable long-term care score. Even though this isn't quite as impressive as many of its other grades, this is truly not a poor grade. With our long-term care score, we focus more on the quantity of care provided by a facility, along with a few quality metrics. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 97.09091 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.