Altercare of Wadsworth

One of the reasons this place is a quality facility is that it earned a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this area, we awarded this facility an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing score includes several datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

This nursing home's next highest area is long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. Our long-term care ratings are important for patients in need of personal care. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 72.0339 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we graded is short-term care. We gave this facility a solid score in this area, with a grade of B-. Although this was not as favorable as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a terrible score. In our short-term care category, we try to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.