Quality Life Services - Westmont

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Our nursing score is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This place offers 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We apply additional weight to these skilled nursing hours in computing our nursing ratings. Although this place excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in certain datapoints that focused on quality. This nursing home's nursing score was hurt by its subpar performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 12.3 percent of this facility's patients experienced pressure ulcers.

This facility also didn't grade out too badly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B- in that area, which ended up being another one of its more respectable scores. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This place also performed well in this area with 59.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

The last area we assessed is long-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 91.08911 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.