Wellpark at Shannondale

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level 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 grades in that category with a score of A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was awarded an above average long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This nursing home seems like a good option if you are searching for a long-term care facility.

This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home didn't perform very well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is notably this facility's worst grade. There are many factors included in this grade. Most of the data points reflect nurse staffing. This place offered just 0.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing scores. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.