Paradigm at Westbury

One of the reasons this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received a very favorable nursing score. In fact, its nursing score is its best category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a grade of B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive scores. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to the area of health inspections, we gave this nursing home a grade of C for our inspection category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This facility had 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category J through L deficiencies. This indicates that inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to place patient health or safety in immediate harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is certainly a significant concern. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.7013 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.