Wesley Ridge Retirement Community

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in short-term care. Short-term care grades are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another quality feature of this facility is its inspection rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without having access to complete deficiency related data, it is a challenge to fully assess it in terms of this category.

Turning to the last category, this facility was given a decent long-term care score. While this wasn't nearly as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is truly not a terrible score. In forming our long-term care scores, we assess the facility's personal care services. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.454544 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.