Warr Acres Nursing Center

Even though we gave this nursing home an abysmal overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facility also didn't perform too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- in that category, which turned out to be among its better grades. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

We were also stunned to discover that this nursing home received a solid long-term care rating in our assessment. We gave it a C in that area. With our long-term care assessment, we assess the amount of care offered by a nursing home, along with some quality statistics. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 66.33166 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping 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 figure.

The final category we looked at was inspections. Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.