Willow Brook Court at Park Pointe Village

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities fared this well in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf profile, this facility also was awarded a dominant short-term care grade, with a grade of A. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is generally a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Building on its strong resume, this nursing home also received a dominant long-term care grade, with a grade of A. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. We gave it an A in this area. This topped off truly elite profile. The nursing grade weighs many components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.