Wayside Farm

While this place's overall score was not a highlight, it received a slightly more favorable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this area, which is a decent score. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. Sadly, this place was hit with a category L deficiency, which is not what we expected based on its inspection grade. This category of deficiency indicates inspectors found a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in immediate jeopardy. Even a single serious deficiency of this nature should be taken seriously. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This facility's long-term care grade appears to be one of its higher grades. The nursing home was awarded a B- in this area. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 95.663956 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. The nursing score weighs a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

Switching gears to our last category, we awarded this nursing home a D for the area of short-term care. This is the facility's worst category score. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.