Windsor Manor

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive short-term care grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing score is based on a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A- for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

The final area we rated was long-term care. This facility was given a better than average nursing grade this year, with a B. While this is not quite as elite as several of its other grades, this is still one of our stronger grades in that category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.42857 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.