Wells Nursing Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Nursing scores are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These statistics are generally good indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are presumably more meaningful for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility supplied more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than a typical facility. This is typically an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 36.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final category we graded is long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually ended up being this nursing home's worst area. In calculating our long-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. After looking at the very respectable amount of nursing care provided by this facility, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.