Willows Center

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This score is far better than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite long-term care score. In fact, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.40288 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Nursing grades are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The last area we rated is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is a very poor score. This is clearly a major concern. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.