Weskota Manor

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly flawless. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many elite grades, this nursing home received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.2126 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In the final category we rated, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a first-rate report card. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided with better nursing care.