Woodland Park Nursing & Rehabilitation

This facility earned a long-term care score which is better than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home a B+ in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.86096 percent of its patients, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an B+ for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in this category. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its poor score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this facility offers substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

This facility's least impressive area is nursing, which is the last category we assessed. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area. Even with several respectable grades in other categories, this grade is still disappointing so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.