Westminster Place

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In our short-term care grade, we seek to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this nursing home received strong marks in the area of long-term care. As a result, it was given one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A+. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 87.7193 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Continuing with its amazing performance, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This place was assessed 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category, this nursing home also was given a very strong nursing rating, with an A-. This topped off a straight A profile. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.