Windsor Cypress Gardens Care Center

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Building on this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing rating. We gave them an impressive grade of B- in this category. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

This facility received its third best category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a respectable score. Our long-term care grades are more important for folks in need of more conventional services related to personal care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.11243 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the last area, this facility received an acceptable short-term care grade of C. In our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.