Waters Edge Village

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its first-rate long-term care grade. We awarded them one of our best grades in that category, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.544556 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The third area we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of C in this area. In computing these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final area we scored was nursing. We gave this nursing home a D for our nursing category, leaving this as the facility's least impressive category. There are a variety of data points included in this grade. Most of these subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.