Wisner Care Center

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few facilities performed this well in this area. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. There are several factors included in this category. Many of these criteria are tied to nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient at least once a day.

We also would like to point out the fact that this nursing home received an impressive grade of A- in our short-term care category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we graded is long-term care. This facility was given an above average long-term care grade this year, with a B-. Although this isn't nearly as elite as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable grade for that area. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.49593 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.