Walsh Healthcare Center

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. There are several criteria included in this grade. Most of the factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also performed well in inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that area with a score of A-. Few nursing homes with an overall grade in this range performed as well in multiple categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. It does not appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having access to all of the deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being a challenge to fully assess the place in terms of this category.

In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better grades in that area, with a score of B. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home received a decent long-term care rating. Even though this is not as dominant as many of its other category grades, this is truly not a terrible score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 97.72727 percent of its residents, which is a very solid statistic. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.