Wesley Woods at New Albany

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. We weren't able to track down information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to really evaluate it in the area of inspections.

We also gave this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care score. Our short-term care ratings are likely most important for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we assessed is nursing, turned out to be this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This was one of the few dings on a quality profile. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility vaccinated a relatively low 54.545456 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.