Wesley Manor

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. Long-term care grades are used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 97.948715 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility was awarded a decent nursing score of B-. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.