Wildwood Care Center

We awarded this nursing home an A for our short-term care score. This score is much more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility also performed well in inspections. It received one of our highest scores in that category with an B+. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This facility's weakest area is long-term care, which is the final area we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category. Even with several respectable grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless alarming so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 81.13207 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.