Woodlake Nursing & Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not 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.

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded positive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in this category, with a B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.51923 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's third highest area was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home did not perform well. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's weakest grade. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of subcategories, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This number is significantly below average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing rating significantly.