Sherwood Healthcare Center

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. 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 these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.402596 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place 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.

The third category we analyzed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. Short-term care grades are often used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in nursing, which is generally an acceptable grade. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We especially like to look at the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these issues.