Accel at Willow Bend

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care score. In computing our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident even once per day.

The last area we looked at was long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a D in this area. Sadly, this score hurt the facility's overall profile a bit. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After considering the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.69281 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.