Whester Terrace

Whester Terrace is an average-sized nursing home located in Mansfield, Ohio. Featuring an overall score of C, this looks like a decent nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly far worse nursing homes out there. One of the better aspects of this facility's profile is its strong inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Turning to the category of short-term care, we gave this facility a score of A- in that area. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned to the community from this nursing home. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 60.8 percent of its residents returning home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We especially look at the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these issues.

The final area we looked at was long-term care. It received a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. This is obviously a significant concern. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to just 68.96552 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.78 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.