Wildwood Care Center

This nursing home received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially want to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's above average category grades came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of B+. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 48.59813 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we expected but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this area. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, we also baked some quality measures into our nursing ratings. This nursing home was relatively weak in a few of the major metrics we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often good measures of the quality of nursing care available.