Weatherford Health Care Center

We want to point out that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this area. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.65398 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest category we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last category we assessed was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for nursing, leaving this as its worst area. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. In addition to its weak nursing hour totals, this facility received poor scores in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this place's residents experienced falls which led to serious injury. We believe that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing grade.