Wilton Retirement Community

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home also received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A+. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in our long-term care category. As a result, we gave it a grade of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our highest scores. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 91.50944 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next area we graded is nursing, where this nursing home was awarded a B-. This was this facility's weakest category. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. In calculating our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.