Merit Health Wesley

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care rating. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. It doesn't appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are a host of datapoints within this category. Most of these subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was given an excellent long-term care score. We gave it an A in this area, giving this facility straight A's. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.