Located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, Willimansett Center West is the only nursing home located in this city. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. This is just about as good of a place as you'll find. If you look below, you can see this place's category ratings, which are also quite good.
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Willimansett Center West
- Nursing Home
Updated Aug 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Grade: A-minus
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Awards
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Long-term Care Quality
Grade: A
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.62687 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
Grade: A
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
Grade: B-plus
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
Grade: B
Moving on to our final category, this facility received a very strong short-term care score. Although this wasn't nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this remains one of our more impressive scores a facility can receive. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. It does not look like this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Willimansett Center West Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: A-minus
In Willimansett Center West, 5.47% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents which suffered from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: B
In Willimansett Center West, 3.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often the result of poor nursing care. More supervision minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: B-minus
In Willimansett Center West, 2.37% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this statistic may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: B
In Willimansett Center West, 14.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients which are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: C
In Willimansett Center West, 24.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A+
In Willimansett Center West, 0% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B-plus
In Willimansett Center West, 98.8% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: B
In Willimansett Center West, 15.35% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: B
In Willimansett Center West, 15.58% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
Grade: B-minus
In Willimansett Center West, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: B
In Willimansett Center West, 15.58% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: B-minus
In Willimansett Center West, 13.67% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: D
In Willimansett Center West, 64.71% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Holyoke Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.39 miles away575 Beech Street Holyoke Massachusetts 01040Voluntary non-profit - Private(413) 534-2500
- Baystate Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.19 miles away759 Chestnut Street Springfield Massachusetts 01199Voluntary non-profit - Private(413) 794-0000
- Mercy Medical CtrAcute Care Hospitals 4.68 miles away271 Carew Street Springfield Massachusetts 01104Voluntary non-profit - Private(413) 748-9000
- Baystate Noble HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.64 miles away115 West Silver Street Westfield Massachusetts 01085Voluntary non-profit - Private(413) 568-2811
- Cooley Dickinson Hospital Inc,TheAcute Care Hospitals 10.65 miles away30 Locust Street Northampton Massachusetts 01060Voluntary non-profit - Private(413) 582-2000
- Baystate Wing Hospital and Medical CentersAcute Care Hospitals 13.9 miles away40 Wright Street Palmer Massachusetts 01069Voluntary non-profit - Other(413) 283-7651
Nearby Dialysis
- Ara-Holyoke Dialysis LLC1.33 miles away36 Lower Westfield Rd Unit C-153 Holyoke Massachusetts 01040Dialysis Stations: 20 (413) 533-3128
- Dialysis Center of Western Massachusetts2.05 miles away601 Memorial Drive, Suite H Chicopee Massachusetts 01020Dialysis Stations: 15 (413) 593-3078
- Chicopee Dialysis Center2.07 miles awayI 391 Industrial Park 317 Meadow Street Chicopee Massachusetts 01013Dialysis Stations: 17 (413) 535-2529
- Pioneer Valley Dialysis Center2.8 miles away208 Ashley Avenue West Springfield Massachusetts 01089CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (413) 750-3400
- Western Mass. Kidney Center (Bma Springfield)5.25 miles away2000 Main Street Springfield Massachusetts 01103CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (413) 739-4751
- East Springfield Dialysis (Bma of Massachusetts)5.48 miles away1515 State Street Springfield Massachusetts 01109CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (413) 732-1586
- Springfield Dialysis Center5.68 miles away125 Liberty Street, Suite 101 Springfield Massachusetts 01103Dialysis Stations: 16 (413) 736-9600
- Heritage Dialysis Center, LLC6.96 miles away67 Cooper Street Agawam Massachusetts 01001Dialysis Stations: 13 (413) 786-2022
