Waldon Health Care Center

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in that area with an A+. Inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a favorable grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our higher grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 68.49315 percent of its patients. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

As it turns out, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care grade, which is not an impressive grade. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we looked at is nursing, which ended up being this facility's weakest category. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing score weighs many data points. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.