Westwood Health and Rehabilita

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility wound up receiving a a terrible grade in our short-term care category. It was given an F in this area. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a score in this range for this category, we weren't surprised to learn this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing grade includes quite a few components, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 53.448277 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than the national average. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.