West Point Care Center

On top of earning a quality overall score, this facility also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our highest scores in that area, with a grade of A. Inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Adding to its first-rate profile, this facility also was given a strong short-term care score, with a grade of A-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility was awarded an acceptable long-term care score. While this isn't nearly as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is still not a poor grade. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 73.68421 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.