Wilton Meadows Health Care Center

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, it also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without complete deficiency data, it was difficult to assess this nursing home in this category.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing score is largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Connecticut in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident even once per day.

The third area we assessed is short-term care. Contributing to its first-rate profile, this facility also performed well in this area. In fact, we awarded it a of A- in that category. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we graded is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a favorable grade of B. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.