Wesley Enhanced Living at Stapeley

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it received an above average short-term care grade. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are arguably most critical for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to our next category, this facility also received a grade of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 89.5631 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we assessed is nursing, where this facility was awarded a grade of B. This nursing home ended up being strong in all areas we analyzed. We analyzed the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.