Wisconsin Veterans Home at Union Grove

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent nursing score. We awarded them an A in this category. Our nursing grade analyzes many subcategories, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 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' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its first-rate short-term care score. It received one of our better grades in that area, with a score of A-. Our short-term care grades are important for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

The last area we scored was long-term care. This facility was given a very good long-term care grade this year, with a C. Although this was not as dominant as a few of its other scores, this remains an acceptable score in that area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.9899 percent of its residents. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.