Adams Woodcrest

Adams Woodcrest is a large government-owned nursing home in Decatur, Indiana. We awarded this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our analysis, you can not go wrong with this place. This facility also received consistently good ratings in all of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that it performed respectably with 47.3 percent of its residents able to return home.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home also performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in this category. This completed a first-rate report card. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Indiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.