Westminster Point Pleasant

On top of faring well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to point out the fact that this facility was given a superb score of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are vital for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning our third category, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. This is a first-rate score. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.66888 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a very impressive report card. The nursing grade weighs numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.