The Gardens at Warwick Forest
1000 Old Denbeigh Boulevard, Newport News VA 23602 · (757) 875-2000 · 88.27% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
The Gardens at Warwick Forest is a facility located in Newport News, Virginia, a city with a population of 179,275 people. With an overall rating of B-, this appears to be a decent nursing home. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Newport News. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 209 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. If it wasn't for this grade, this facility's overall grade would have been much worse. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in Virginia in this area with 66 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing grade weighs many subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. With 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility surpassed the national average. We also look at the skill levels of these nurses and apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Finally, our nursing scores also include quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is usually a good indicator of how carefully a place's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses and superior safety protocols are used.
Long-term Care Quality
Our final area is long-term care, in which we awarded this facility a C in this area. With our long-term care score, we weigh the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as well as some quality measures. This nursing home's vaccination data weren't as favorable some of its other data points in this category, such as its nursing hours. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 82.93104 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Nevertheless, this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Gardens at Warwick Forest Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better