Windsor Gardens

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B- in this area. Long-term care grades are used to score a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.63637 percent of its patients. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a C. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is generally a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.