Excel at Woodbury for Rehab and Nursing

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this place also received first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this category, with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home performed well in the area of short-term care. As a result, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our higher grades. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a decent grade of C. With our long-term care assessment, we look at the amount of services provided by a facility, along with a few qualitative statistics. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 98.630135 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our final area, we gave this facility a grade of D for nursing. This is the facility's worst category rating. Unfortunately, this score hurt the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this nursing home also didn't fare as well as we hoped in some of the quality measures we looked at in this category.