Westmoreland Place

Westmoreland Place is one of four available facilities located in Chillicothe, Ohio. This nursing home was given an overall grade of F. Keep in mind that Chillicothe received a city grade of B-, so should consider other options in the city as well. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this place a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This is due to the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had too many severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Remarkably, we gave this facility a C for our short-term care score, which is not a bad grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is generally a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility performed better in this statistic. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this metric with 54.2 percent of its patients returning home.

We were stunned to find that this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it a score of D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. There are many subcategories within this category. Most of these criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing score significantly.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is a poor score. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.730965 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.