The Waterford Care Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this subcategory.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.852776 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's weakest category was short-term care, which is the final category we looked at. We gave it a lowly F in this area. Even with some decent scores in other categories, this score is still concerning so we wanted to draw your attention to it. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. With its abysmal score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this facility provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home.