Woodlands of Oconto

Woodlands of Oconto is a small nursing home located in Oconto, Wisconsin. This facility received an overall grade of C, which is a solid rating. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to be a solid choice for most people. This place didn't fare well in all of our categories, but it didn't receive any terrible grades either. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's next highest category turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home averages just 2.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. While this nursing home didn't really impress in terms of the quantity of nursing care offered, it actually performed admirably in a few of our quality-based metrics. In fact, it was above average in two of the subcategories we look at, with good scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's least impressive area is long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 99.324326 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.78 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.