Wesley Woods at New Albany

Wesley Woods at New Albany is a very-small non-profit nursing home located in New Albany, Ohio. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. We weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it was a challenge to assess the place in this category.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 8.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the higher figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

In addition, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded it one of our stronger grades in that category, with a score of B. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our long-term care category. This is the facility's weakest category score. Naturally, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It does not appear that this nursing home provided vaccination data. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.