Four Winds Nursing Facility

Four Winds Nursing Facility is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Jackson, Ohio. It looks like this is a fine nursing home. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a favorable grade. You could definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this area, we gave it an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B. With our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this nursing home performed much more favorably. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country with 59.9 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

This nursing home's third best area is its long-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. In determining our long-term care ratings, we size up the assistance with daily living offered to the facility's residents. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.82 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we scored is nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this statistic. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients at least once a day.