Willows at Bellevue

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed this well in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a top-shelf grade of A in our short-term care category. Short-term care ratings are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we scored turned out to be this facility's worst area. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of B- in our long-term care category. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 97.9021 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.