The Windsor Place

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without all of the deficiency related data, it is a challenge to really evaluate it in terms of this category.

Additionally, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received strong long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's second highest grade. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care. This facility received a grade of C for this area. Our short-term care grades are important for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.