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Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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202 Painter St,
Galax VA 24333

(276) 236-5164

91.92% estimated occupancy ¹

Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center is a facility located in Galax, Virginia, which has 17,996 people. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is a respectable facility. At the end of the day, this nursing home would be a good fit for most people. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its remarkable inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

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Facility Inspections

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall rating. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this facility's recent inspections.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home was awarded its next best category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is an acceptable score. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.545456 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Nurse Quality

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

Short-term Care Quality

Switching gears to our final area, we awarded this facility a D for the area of short-term care. This was the facility's worst category rating. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. With a grade of this caliber for this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility was below average in several staffing metrics we focus on. It provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.7 percent of its residents returning home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 4.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who have pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 5.68% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 2.35% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to insufficient hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 5.78% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents who are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 33.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 7.33% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 96.62% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 12.77% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 19.67% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were able to retain mobility. Some experts would argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 19.67% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 20.01% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center, 84.42% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.