Westminster Woods on Julington Creek

Westminster Woods on Julington Creek is located in Saint Johns, Florida. The city has 36,917 people. With an overall score of A+, this facility is one of the most impressive nursing homes we assessed. We were impressed enough to rate this facility as one of the 50 best nursing homes in Florida. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home was given strong marks in the area of short-term care. Consequently, it was given one of our most impressive scores in that area with a score of A+. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied about 50% more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the average facility. This is often a great sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 63.1 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on our next category, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a very impressive rating. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This facility's vaccination records were not as impressive as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.93104 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Fortunately, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

In the final category we looked at, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. The nursing rating consists of many subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With under 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category.