Blue Ridge Healthcare Windwood

Blue Ridge Healthcare Windwood is an average-sized facility located in Montgomery, Alabama. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires above average marks in most areas. In fact, we found this facility to be better than most of the nursing homes in Montgomery, which has a city grade of B. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any weak links in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 63.52941 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Fortunately, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.73 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes since it had some more complicated patients.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility was given a respectable short-term care grade. Although this wasn't as good as some of its other category grades, this is really not a major area of concern. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 32.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.