Westminster Village in Dover

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. The nursing score is based on several subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home was given a strong short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area with a grade of B+. With our short-term care score, we seek to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B-. Even though this proved to be its worst category grade, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Our long-term care scores are more critical for individuals needing more conventional assistance associated with personal care. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 90.366974 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than the national average. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.