Whitehaven Community Living Center

This facility excelled in our short-term care category, with an A- in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is more often than not a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating is largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third category we graded is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In determining our long-term care scores, we analyze the personal care offered to a facility's residents. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated just 48.275864 percent of its residents for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we looked at was inspections. Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive favorable inspections in recent years. We had to give it an F in this category. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we tend to heavily weight a poor performance in this category. This really pulled down this place's overall score. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular facility had 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a facility's poor track record spanned several years.