Winfield Rehab & Nursing

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was its short-term care grade, where it received a B-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is often a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we graded was nursing, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this facility a grade of D for our nursing category. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.