Walker Methodist Westwood Ridge Ii

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility was superb in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an exemplary score of A+ in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing score analyzes quite a few components, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we assessed was long-term care. We gave this facility one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B. While this is not as high as many of its other scores, it is nevertheless an excellent grade. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.