Willimansett Center East

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes performed this well in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given strong grades in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, it received one of our most favorable scores in that category with a area of A-. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.08429 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also received an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we scored was this facility's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- in our nursing category. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving patients more frequently.