Wingfield Hills Health & Wellness

We want to point out that this facility's short-term care rating exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this area, which is a strong grade. In crafting these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Nevada in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

Next we looked at this facility's inspection rating This score is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this category. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent danger to resident health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated a relatively low 81.06061 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.