Westport Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

Westport Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is one of a variety of options to choose from in Richmond, Virginia. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all nursing homes in the United States. As far as we can see, this facility looks like a wonderful choice for most people. Finally, we wanted to point out that there was an ownership change at this facility in the last 12 months. We will need to make sure it maintains its high grades going forward.

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received an excellent long-term care rating. We gave it an A in that area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the factors we considered on top of this facility's above average nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also was superb in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Few facilities fared better in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. One of this facility's strengths is physical therapy. We found that it provides at least 1.5 times as many hours with physical therapists to its residents as most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in this area with 69.8 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.

Tallying another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last area we scored is nursing. This nursing home received a very good nursing score in our assessment, with a B. While this wasn't quite as elite as many of its other scores, this remains one of the more impressive scores for this area. There are many criteria within this grade. Many of these factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides an extremely impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is among the more impressive totals in the country. Finally, this facility also excelled in several quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and having a protocol of turning patients more often.