Wayne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider 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.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Sadly, this facility's next highest score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

The last category we scored is nursing, is this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this category. This really is one of just a few weak points of a very solid profile. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this category. This particular nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.