Care One at Wayne - Snf

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was dominant in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Not many facilities received a better grade in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is often a useful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients 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 analyzed is nursing, where this facility was given a C. Even though this ended up being its worst category score, this is still not a poor grade. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. 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. Finally, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.