Envoy of Woodbridge

On top of having a decent overall grade, we also wanted to point out that this place received favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in this category, with a B+. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

The second highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

This nursing home was awarded its next best category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.46739 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's worst category was short-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.