Windsor Nursing & Retirement Home

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. The nursing rating includes many components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a positive grade in long-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 91.358025 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we assessed is inspections. Unfortunately, we were surprised to find that this nursing home received such a poor inspection score. We gave it a score of just D in this area. Clearly, this grade is not on par with some of this facility's other grades. Inspection scores relate to a facility's government inspection reports. Since this information is collected by government inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This facility had 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in excess of $50,000. This often means that CMS inspectors grew tired after several years of failed health inspections.