West River Rehab Center

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category score. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. We want to point out that we seem to be missing some data on this facility's long-term care statistics, but we were content with the data we found.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing score is based on a number of datapoints. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients more often.

The next category we rated is short-term care. We awarded this facility one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. This facility turned out to be strong in all areas we analyzed. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.