Westland House

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our short-term care grades are crucial for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. 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. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that category, with an A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Without all of the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to grade the place in the inspections category.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care. This facility was given a favorable long-term care score this year, with a B-. Although this wasn't nearly as impressive as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable grade in that category. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for folks in need of more traditional assistance associated with personal care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Finally, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.