Atrium Post Acute Care of Woodbury

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also received a positive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in this area. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this nursing home an impressive grade of D. There are many subcategories within this area. Most of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's worst area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.