Westview of Derby

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we did give it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The next best category we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. In crafting our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated just 84.210526 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.