Wildwood Care Center

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Among its many high-end scores, this facility received a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A- in that area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is more often than not a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility also was given a high-end long-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 83.33333 percent of its patients against pneumonia. 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Lastly, this facility also received top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a score of B+. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category generally have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.