Wexford Care Center

While this facility'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 C for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. It doesn't appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this proved to be its second best grade. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care grade.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. The nursing score weighs quite a few subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an abysmal score in this category as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 77.40113 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points below average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.