Arbors at Woodsfield

We would like to note that this facility's short-term care rating exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this area, which is a very solid score. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also was awarded a positive long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our better. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.453606 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem 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.

The last category we graded is nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in that category. Our nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing scores also consider some quality-focused statistics. We especially like to look at the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these issues.