Whitehaven Community Living Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a much better grade for nursing than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the category of short-term care, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- in that category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the category of long-term care, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- in that area. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 76.66667 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This dragged down this facility's overall score quite a bit. For nursing homes with poor inspection scores, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This typically means that a poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.