Westridge Health Care Center

This nursing home excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. If it wasn't for this area, this place's overall score would have been lower. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.4186 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third category we assessed was short-term care, where this nursing home's score wasn't nearly as strong as a few of its other grades. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an F. Short-term care ratings are critical for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

This nursing home's weakest area is nursing, which is the last area we analyzed. We gave it an F for this category. Despite some respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless of a concern so we would like to to point it out. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.