Waterview Pointe Nursing & Rehabilitation

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this category with an A-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having complete deficiency data for this nursing home, it was difficult to really grade it in the inspections category.

This facility's second most favorable category ended up being long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In determining our long-term care scores, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living offered to the facility's patients. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 87.93103 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

Turning to the next category, we gave this nursing home a D in our short-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category grade. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.