Atrium Post Acute Care of Woodbury

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility received impressive marks in the area of short-term care as well. In fact, we awarded it one of our most dominant scores in that area with a area of A-. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.

The final category we scored is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Sadly, this score hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home vaccinated just 73.77049 percent of its residents, which is a bit of a concern. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.