Windy Hill Village

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. When calculating our nursing ratings, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic.

This facility received its next most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is generally a fair measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.21429 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.