Monumental Post Acute Care At Woodside Park

We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this area with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an C. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures 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.

We also gave this nursing home a solid grade in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. In calculating our long-term care scores, we assess the personal care offered to a nursing home's patients. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. We were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 50.547443 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we graded was short-term care, which was a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of D for our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are arguably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.