The Woodlands
1400 Woodland Ave, Plainfield NJ 07060 · (908) 753-1113 · 91.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Woodlands is one of just three available facilities located in Plainfield, New Jersey. Sporting an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is among the better facilities we assessed. Remarkably, the facilities in Plainfield received high scores across the board, making this one of the best places in New Jersey to find a nursing home. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also performed well in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Very few nursing homes fared better in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Jersey with 62.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This facility received a very good long-term care grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this wasn't quite as good as a few of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a decent grade for that area. Our long-term care grades are more important for folks in need of more conventional services related to personal care. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.44156 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Woodlands Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better