Windward Gardens

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received high marks for short-term care as well. As a result, it received our highest score in that category with a score of A+. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade weighs numerous subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the last area we scored. For this area, we gave this nursing home an D. We would like to to draw your attention to this potential area of weakness, but you shouldn't over-emphasize one area either. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated only 86.48649 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.