Wesley Woods Rehabilitation and Care Center

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility performed well in our long-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.044586 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this was not one of this facility's strong suits. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. Clearly, this facility performed much better in the categories discussed above. 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 quantity of hours spent with patients. With just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to our final area, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category rating. Naturally, this score hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.