Westminster Village

To go along with its great overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to its impressive resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a score of A- in that area. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational 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 skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 4.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We looked at the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 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.

The fourth area we scored was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B+. This wrapped up a first-rate profile. Only a select few facilities received a B+ or better in every single category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.