Dock Woods Senior Living Community

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection score. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients even once per day.

The third area we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also performed well in that area. In fact, we awarded it a of A for that area. Short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home was given a strong long-term care grade. We gave it an A- in this area, rounding out a straight A profile. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.67257 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.