Four Winds Manor

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ in short-term care. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. The nursing rating features a host of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The fourth area we scored was long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B+. This completed a very impressive profile. Not many nursing homes received a B+ or higher in each of our categories. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.05825 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.