Medilodge of Westwood

This facility really excelled in our short-term care category. We awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. This salvaged its profile. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection score where it received an F. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also want to point out that this nursing home received large government fines recently of over $100,000. This typically suggests that a nursing home's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The last category we graded was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is certainly a major concern. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 98.79518 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable statistic. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.