Warr Acres Nursing Center

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also received an elite nursing rating. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A. Our nursing score is based on quite a few factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

An additional quality feature for this facility is that it was awarded a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most critical for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received impressive government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not something to panic about.

The next category we graded is long-term care, where this facility was given a grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. This is still not a terrible score. Long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's volume of care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 71.779144 percent of its patients, which is somewhat alarming. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.