Windsor House at Champion

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a 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 also received a favorable score in our long-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B+ in that category. In a long-term care setting, the facility'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 residents. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 86.446884 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our nursing rating features several subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Lastly, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this metric.

The final category we assessed is short-term care, which was this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. Naturally, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall grade a bit. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this place offers fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.9 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.