Country Villa Westwood

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. The nursing score consists of a handful of factors, but the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in this area, with a B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest score. Short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its long-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.007965 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Moving on our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible grade. With an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. For places with poor inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 33 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.