Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center is an average-sized facility located in Sanford, North Carolina. This nursing home proved to be a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. As far as we can see, this place looks like a solid choice for most people. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
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Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our long-term care category. We awarded it an impressive grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. It doesn't appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's weakest area was nursing, which is the final area we looked at. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. We want to to draw your attention to this potential weak link, but you should not focus exclusively on a single area either. There are a variety of subcategories included in this area. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 3.14% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 12.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 21.12% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 3.84% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 88.29% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 19.92% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 21.81% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 1.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 21.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 12.78 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 73.13% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Central Carolina HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.56 miles away1135 Carthage St Sanford North Carolina 27330Voluntary non-profit - Private(919) 774-2100
Nearby Dialysis
- Carolina Dialysis Sanford2.53 miles away1922 K M Wicker Memoriall Drive Sanford North Carolina 27330CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (919) 718-0680
- Carolina Dialysis, LLC4.61 miles away115 Wilson Road Sanford North Carolina 27332CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (919) 775-3725
- Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina, Inc.8.14 miles away290 h.m. Cagle Drive Cameron North Carolina 28326Dialysis Stations: 12 (919) 499-1483
- Carthage Dialysis13.66 miles away165 Savannah Garden Dr Carthage North Carolina 28327Dialysis Stations: 12 (910) 947-1052