Westminster Village North

On top of earning a favorable overall grade, this facility also received a quality nursing rating. We awarded it a B+ in this category. Our nursing category analyzes quite a few factors, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Indiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B+. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our stronger grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is often employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in that category. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for people in need of more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.056076 percent of its patients, which is a bit below what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.