Atrium Post Acute Care of Woodbury
467 Cooper Street, West Deptford NJ 08096 · (856) 345-1200 · 65.56% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Atrium Post Acute Care of Woodbury is in West Deptford, New Jersey. The city has 36,116 people. This is a decent facility, with an overall grade of B-. This facility seems to have a few things going for it. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 124 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility an A for our short-term care rating. This score is much more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This facility is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. It offered roughly one and a half times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. This is what we look for when assessing a facility in this category. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in New Jersey in this area with 64.4 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received one of our best scores in that category with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing grade consists of many factors, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provides a very impressive 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. Lastly, our nursing grade also includes some relevant quality measures. Even though this nursing home excelled in terms of quantity of nursing care, it lagged behind in certain subcategories that emphasized quality. This facility's nursing score was hurt by its weak data related to minimizing pressure ulcers.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we graded is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. This is obviously a major disappointment. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Based on its grade in this category, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that this nursing home received good marks in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. In fact, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This figure is actually higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Atrium Post Acute Care of Woodbury Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who had UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients which are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better