Wilson Nursing Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of long-term care. In fact, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we assessed is nursing, where we gave it an above average grade of B. This nursing home truly does not have any weak links. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.