Wesleyan Village

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing scores are largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facilities next most favorable category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the final category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area. In spite of some solid grades in other categories, this grade is still alarming so we would like to to point it out. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 63.793106 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.