Woodlake Nursing & Rehabilitation

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few places fared this well in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that 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.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so well is that it was awarded a strong long-term care score. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second most favorable category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.354836 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.57 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

This facility was awarded an impressive short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a score of B. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 56.2 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

The last category we looked at was nursing, turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. This was one of the few weak points on a strong profile. Our nursing grade includes several factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. Unfortunately, this place also didn't fare as well as we hoped in some of the quality measures we looked at in this category.