Westwood Center

Although we gave this facility an abysmal overall score, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing category. Our nursing score assesses a handful of datapoints, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients more often.

This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. Unfortunately, this ended up being its second best grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This typically indicates that a nursing home'spoor performance spanned more than one year.

This facility's second worse score is short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Given its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is an abysmal score. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated only 83.13253 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.