Westminster at Lake Ridge

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Racking up yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

The next area we looked at is long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Nevertheless, we would not judge this nursing home solely on a single weak area, as it earned a few superb scores in other categories. In forming our long-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 91.66667 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.