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 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. 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 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. For this area, we gave this nursing home an D. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. It doesn't look like this facility submitted vaccination data. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.