Waterford Crossing

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is more often than not a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents more often.

The next area we scored was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of C. This actually ended up being this nursing home's worst category. In our long-term care category, we analyze the amount of services offered by a nursing home, along with a series of quality metrics. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.35165 percent of its patients. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.