Williamsburg Health and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this facility received impressive short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our better grades in this area, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best grade. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility's next best category is its long-term care grade, where it received a B-. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the amount of services provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we rated was nursing, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Of course, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to some degree. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.