West Janisch Health Care Center

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in that category. Our inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 49.20635 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Our short-term care ratings are vital for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The last area we graded is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.