Wesley Glen Health Services Corp

Wesley Glen Health Services Corp is a small non-profit nursing home in Columbus, Ohio. Sporting an overall rating of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the more impressive nursing homes we assessed. Not surprisingly, this is one of the highest rated nursing homes in the city. The best part of this place's profile was is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next section.

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility excelled at short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 66.3 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was strong in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93.87755 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we looked at is nursing. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B. Although this wasn't as dominant as several of its other grades, it is still a positive grade. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in Ohio. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.