Wilber Care Center

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. There are several factors within this area. Most of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient more often.

This nursing home also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, this ended up being this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we rated, this facility was given a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a straight A report card. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most important for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.