Wesley Court Health Center

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong profile, this facility also performed well in our long-term care area. In fact, it received a score of A- in that category. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to this facility's quality nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very impressive statistic which typically leads to better quality care. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the state. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a decent short-term care grade. Even though this wasn't nearly as elite as some of its other scores, this is really not the end of the world. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is generally a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 39 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.