Country Villa Westwood

Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it earned an impressive score when it came to nursing. We awarded it a B in this category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident even once per day.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility received just a D in this category. Sadly, this wound up being its second best grade. In our short-term care assessment, we try to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this place provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

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 100 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 the last category of inspections, this nursing home fared very poorly. It received an F in our inspection category. For facilities with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home had one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines in recent years of more than $50,000. This usually indicates that government inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad health inspections.