Walton Manor Health Care Center

This facility's best category grade came in the category of government inspections. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this nursing home an impressive score in long-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable grades. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area.

The final area we graded was short-term care. We gave this facility a C in that category. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.