The Waterview Woods

Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care grade this year. We gave it a B- in that category. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

As it turns out, its government inspection reports were not the source of this facility's bottom of the barrel overall grade. In fact, it earned a C in this category. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. Surprisingly, this nursing home was assessed a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst deficiencies. This generally indicates that CMS identified a deficiency which placed patient safety or health in imminent danger. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. The nursing score includes quite a few components, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home really did not fare very well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 92.81768 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.