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+. We actually rated it as the best facility in Sanford. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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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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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home performed well in the category of long-term care. As a result, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which turns out to be one of our better grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B+. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is frequently a reliable measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It does not appear that this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest category is nursing, which is the last category we scored. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. We wanted to point out this potential area of weakness, however, you shouldn't over-emphasize one bad category either. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This number is significantly below the national average. While this facility did not excel in nursing hours, it actually surprised us in a few of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place was better than average in this datapoint, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.
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, 12.07% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients which have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 3.3% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents who have sustained falls resulting in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Westfield Rehabilitation and Health Center, 8.25% 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, 8.61% 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, 12.09% 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, 6.7% 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, 99.13% 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, 15.34% 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, 14.52% 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, 0.04 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, 14.52% 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, 8.53% 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, 77.62% 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