Wellington Parc of Owensboro

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home also performed well in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was dominant in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.62162 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Kentucky in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

In the last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. This finished off an elite profile. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.