Westy Community Care Home

Westy Community Care Home is located in Westmoreland, Kansas, a city with a population of 1,646 people. Sporting an overall score of D, this is a well below average nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Westmoreland. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive nursing score. You can scroll down to learn more about nursing and other category scores

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in nursing. We awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides high levels of nursing care, averaging 3.9 hours per resident per day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This nursing home was on the weaker side in two of the major metrics we assess, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care available.

This facility also received a positive score in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 24.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the area of long-term care, with a C. In our long-term care rating, we weigh the volume of care offered by a nursing home, as well as some quality datapoints. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.24561 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.51 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received a horrible grade. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular facility had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines of more than $50,000. This typically signifies that inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad government inspections.