The Woodlands Healthcare Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our better scores. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The next category we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a B- in this area. In determining our long-term care grades, we assess the assistance with daily living received by the facility's patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we rated was nursing, which ended up being this facility's weakest category. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly a major disappointment. There are a number of subcategories included in this grade. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.