Westwood Health and Rehab

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities fared better in that category. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its dominant long-term care grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of A. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.176956 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we rated was this nursing home's weakest area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of C for our short-term care category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.