Willowbrooke Court at Cokesbury Village

Willowbrooke Court at Cokesbury Village is a small non-profit nursing home located in Hockessin, Delaware. We awarded this facility an overall grade of A+, which is a very strong grade. As a matter of fact, it is the number one rated nursing home in the city. You flat out can not do much better than this nursing home. This nursing home also received phenomenal grades in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are probably more meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 61.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. The nursing category consists of a handful of datapoints, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. In addition to offering high levels of care, this nursing home also fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average.

In the last category we rated, this facility received a very strong grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a straight A report card. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of very favorable nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was as good as it gets also. Indeed, it vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.