Windsor Park Manor

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place offers 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which more than one hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly skilled nurses. In computing our nursing ratings, we add more weight to hours provided by registered or licensed nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A for that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. Adding to its strong profile, this facility also performed well in this area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for the category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation To provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 72.5 percent of its residents returning home.

The last category we assessed was long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. While this wasn't as favorable as a few of this facility's other grades, it is still a positive grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 87.254906 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.