Wedgewood Nursing Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that category with a score of B+. Our short-term care scores are probably more meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next area we rated was long-term care. We awarded it a B- in that area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our long-term care scores are based in part on a facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. We were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 76.81159 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.