WRANGELL MEDICAL CENTER LTC

Wrangell Medical Center LTC earns a 5-star overall rating from CMS, which puts it in the top tier of nursing homes nationally. That overall score is a composite that weighs together three separate ratings, and here is how each one breaks down. Staffing and Quality Measures both come in at 5 stars, meaning the facility is putting in much higher-than-average nurse hours per resident and seeing strong clinical outcomes across 15 health measures like wound care, falls, and medication management. Those two categories carry significant weight, and strong scores in both are a meaningful signal for families that residents are getting attentive, hands-on care that is producing real results. The Health Inspection rating sits at 3 stars, which is right at the national average. This reflects the number and severity of citations state inspectors have found during their visits, so it is worth knowing that inspectors did note some concerns, even if nothing rose to the level of a serious red flag. For families, this means the facility is not perfect on paper from a regulatory standpoint, but it also is not an outlier. The impressive staffing and quality outcomes pull the overall picture up considerably, so the 5-star composite is telling you that, taken as a whole, this is a facility performing well above what most families will find elsewhere.