Wesley Towers

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

Building on its high-end assessment, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a score of A. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is typically a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to our last area, this nursing home also performed admirably in the long-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category. This completed truly elite report card. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.41284 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.