Watrous Nursing Center
9 Neck Rd, Madison CT 06443 · (203) 245-9483 · 79.77% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Watrous Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Madison, Connecticut. With an overall grade of D, this is a well below average nursing home. At the end of the day, we would struggle to recommend this facility. The best thing we can really say about this place is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 45 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections category. This grade is far better than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that have a long list of severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. The lack of deficiencies proved to be this nursing home's greatest accomplishment.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing score is mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are usually indicators of the quality of nursing care available.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given its next most favorable category score in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is a decent grade. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 27.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed was long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in that category. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 84.55882 percent of its patients. This is significantly below what we were hoping for. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. With 1.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place did not fare as well as the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Watrous Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have experienced urinary tract infections. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better