Wesley Court Health Center

Wesley Court Health Center is a small facility located in Abilene, Texas. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade of this caliber requires strong marks in most areas. Abilene has a host of nursing homes, but it is doubtful you will need to visit too many others. This one is a very fine option. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be given multiple A+ category grades. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. When calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care.

The next category we looked at was this nursing home's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of C for our short-term care category. Short-term care ratings are vital for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 43.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.