Westbrook Healthcare

On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. The nursing rating weighs quite a few factors, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. 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 facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

The third area we analyzed is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is frequently a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home was given a respectable long-term care grade. While this isn't quite as impressive as some of its other grades, this is still not a major area of concern. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 69.64285 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit lower than average. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.