Welbrook Senior Living Flagstaff

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

To complement its strong accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This place is head and heels above most nursing homes in this category.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing score is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Finishing off this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. With this score, the nursing home completes its straight A report card. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.