Whispering Heights

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.004974 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a impressive short-term care score. This actually is this nursing home's third most impressive category grade. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility completed a straight A report card. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.