Wesley Health Care Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave it an A+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care grade. This is not one of our better scores. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 84.299515 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

The next area we assessed is nursing, which is this facility's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. Of course, this grade hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. There are numerous subcategories included in this category. Most of the subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This facility offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.