Wausa Care and Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this area, we gave it an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility received an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a score of B+. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home received an impressive long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area with a score of B. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we analyzed is nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provides only 0 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Finally, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.