Windsor Medical Center

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more frequently.

This facility also earned favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.

The next category we graded is long-term care. We gave this facility one of our more favorable grades in this category, with a grade of B. This nursing home turned out to be very solid across the board. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.833336 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.