West River Rehab Center

One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it earned a very impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category. In this category, we gave it an A-. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger grades in that area, with a score of B+. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 73.84196 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

The last area we assessed was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a grade of B. This facility ended up being strong in all areas we analyzed. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.