Friends Village at Woodstown
One Friends Drive, Woodstown NJ 08098 · (856) 769-1500 · 86% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Friends Village at Woodstown is a small non-profit nursing home located in Woodstown, New Jersey. With an overall grade of A+, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 10 nursing homes in New Jersey. You simply can not do any better than this place. We also gave this facility strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 60 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the significant amount of nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this area, this figure may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of patients.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the facility's government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the biggest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be given several A+ category scores. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for folks in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in this area with 62.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last area we rated was nursing. We awarded them another elite grade of A+ in this area. This topped off a spectacular report card of all A+'s. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was among the more impressive figures we found. Finally, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home New Jersey in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Friends Village at Woodstown Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better